US Patent Issued to Otis Elevator on June 3 for "Air pressure floor table detection: statistical analysis of location" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,539, issued on June 3, was assigned to Otis Elevator Co. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Air pressure floor table detection: statistical analysis of location" was invented by Derk Oscar Pahlke (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of monitoring motion of an elevator car within an elevator system is provided including: detecting, using a sensing apparatus, a plurality of pairs of corresponding data within a selected period of time, each pair of corresponding data including a detected elevator car height and a landing corresponding to the detected elevator car height; transmitting the plurality of pairs of corresponding data to a remote...