US Patent Issued to Otis Elevator on Sept. 23 for "Elevator call registration when a car is full" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,076, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Otis Elevator Co. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Elevator call registration when a car is full" was invented by Bradley Armand Scoville (Farmington, Conn.) and Sandeep Sudi (Farmington, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An illustrative example elevator system includes a plurality of elevator cars. A dispatch controller assigns a first one of the elevator cars to travel to a landing in response to a first request for elevator service at that landing. At least one call button is operative to place a second request while the first one of the elevator cars is situated at the landing in response to the ...