B66B 2201/211
Waiting time, i.e. response time
B66B2201/211 (Waiting time, i.e. response time) appears on 233 US grants and 128 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B66B- Granted patents
- 233
- Published applications
- 128
- Assignees
- 34
- Inventors
- 258
- Latest grant
- 8 Sep 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 2 | 0 |
| 1977 | 3 | 0 |
| 1978 | 1 | 0 |
| 1979 | 1 | 0 |
| 1980 | 0 | 0 |
| 1981 | 0 | 0 |
| 1982 | 3 | 0 |
| 1983 | 2 | 0 |
| 1984 | 3 | 0 |
| 1985 | 2 | 0 |
| 1986 | 1 | 0 |
| 1987 | 3 | 0 |
| 1988 | 8 | 0 |
| 1989 | 9 | 0 |
| 1990 | 2 | 0 |
| 1991 | 11 | 0 |
| 1992 | 4 | 0 |
| 1993 | 12 | 0 |
| 1994 | 11 | 0 |
| 1995 | 4 | 0 |
| 1996 | 4 | 0 |
| 1997 | 7 | 0 |
| 1998 | 10 | 0 |
| 1999 | 5 | 0 |
| 2000 | 2 | 0 |
| 2001 | 8 | 4 |
| 2002 | 6 | 1 |
| 2003 | 3 | 2 |
| 2004 | 2 | 4 |
| 2005 | 3 | 2 |
| 2006 | 3 | 5 |
| 2007 | 1 | 6 |
| 2008 | 4 | 6 |
| 2009 | 8 | 7 |
| 2010 | 5 | 7 |
| 2011 | 7 | 15 |
| 2012 | 10 | 13 |
| 2013 | 9 | 6 |
| 2014 | 7 | 4 |
| 2015 | 10 | 8 |
| 2016 | 5 | 6 |
| 2017 | 7 | 1 |
| 2018 | 6 | 1 |
| 2019 | 2 | 5 |
| 2020 | 2 | 6 |
| 2021 | 1 | 5 |
| 2022 | 1 | 5 |
| 2023 | 4 | 3 |
| 2024 | 2 | 3 |
| 2025 | 5 | 3 |
| 2026 | 2 | 0 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Method and apparatus for controlling an elevator car8 Sep 2026US 12,729,094 B2Hyundai Motor Company
- Control of an elevator system16 Jun 2026US 12,654,983 B2Kone Corporation
- Systems and methods for dispatching elevators23 Dec 2025US 12,503,333 B2Appana Industries LLC
- Elevator group management device and elevator system28 Oct 2025US 12,454,437 B2Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
- Information processing apparatus, information processing system, non-transitory computer readable medium, and information processing method12 Aug 2025US 12,384,653 B2Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
- Systems and methods for dispatching elevators4 Sep 2025US 2025/0276870 A1Appana Industries LLC
- Elevator call allocation with adaptive multi-objective optimization3 Jul 2025US 2025/0214807 A1Kone Corporation
- Systems and methods for dispatching elevators20 Feb 2025US 2025/0058999 A1Appana Industries LLC
- System and method for controlling multidirectional operation of an elevator26 Dec 2024US 2024/0425322 A1
- Elevator group control device9 May 2024US 2024/0150152 A1Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- Apparatus for performing group control on elevators61US 4,760,896 AKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba · 1988
- Queue based elevator dispatching system using peak period traffic prediction53US 4,838,384 AOtis Elevator Company · 1989
- Elevator group management control apparatus and elevator group management control method46US 5,865,274 AKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba · 1999
- Relative system response elevator call assignments42US 4,363,381 AOtis Elevator Company · 1982
- Method and apparatus for controlling a group of elevators using fuzzy rules42US 5,022,498 AFujitec Co., Ltd. · 1991