ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,264, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Otis Elevator Co. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Elevator management system that transmits combined operational and position data to an elevator management center" was invented by Tadeusz Pawel Witczak (Farmington, Conn.), Craig Bogli (Avon, Conn.) and Nikola Trcka (West Hartford, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an elevator system, including a gateway configured to: receive, from an elevator car controller of an elevator car, car controller data for the elevator car that includes a car positional log of the elevator car; receive, from a beacon mounted to the elevator car, car operati...