ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,334, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Otis Elevator Co. (Farmington, Conn.).
"Self intelligent occupant evacuation systems" was invented by Jayapal Reddy Gireddy (Telangana, India) and Srinivasa Krishna Mulukutla (Telangana, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an embodiment, a method of operating an elevator system during a fire evacuation including: receiving a fire detection from a fire alarm system indicating a fire; detecting a fire intensity using a fire quantity measurement system; and determining a discharge landing for the elevator system in response to at least the fire intensity."
The patent was filed on De...