B66B 2201/226
Taking into account the distribution of elevator cars within the elevator system
Official title: Taking into account the distribution of elevator cars within the elevator system, e.g. to prevent clustering of elevator cars
B66B2201/226 (Taking into account the distribution of elevator cars within the elevator system) appears on 31 US grants and 16 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B66B- Granted patents
- 31
- Published applications
- 16
- Assignees
- 10
- Inventors
- 51
- Latest grant
- 23 Dec 2025
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001.
Recent patents
- Control for shuttle elevator groups23 Dec 2025US 12,503,335 B2Otis Elevator Company
- Super group architecture with advanced building wide dispatching logic—distributed group architecture10 Sep 2024US 12,084,308 B2Otis Elevator Company
- Automatic cognitive analysis of elevators to reduce passenger wait time6 Aug 2024US 12,054,355 B2Otis Elevator Company
- Destination dispatch sectoring4 Jul 2023US 11,691,845 B2Otis Elevator Company
- Destination dispatch sectoring8 Jun 2021US 11,027,943 B2Otis Elevator Company
- Systems and methods for dispatching elevators20 Feb 2025US 2025/0058997 A1Appana Industries LLC
- System to manage movement within a building to reduce personal risk15 Sep 2022US 2022/0290993 A1Otis Elevator Company
- Systems and methods for dispatching elevators20 Jan 2022US 2022/0017326 A1Appana Industries LLC
- Destination dispatch sectoring29 Jul 2021US 2021/0229951 A1Otis Elevator Company
- Control for shuttle elevator groups24 Jun 2021US 2021/0188594 A1Otis Elevator Company
Most cited
By later US patents
- Elevator group management control apparatus and elevator group management control method46US 5,865,274 AKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba · 1999
- Method and apparatus for assigning calls entered at floors to cars of a group of elevators29US 5,612,519 AInventio AG · 1997
- Open loop adaptive fuzzy logic controller for elevator dispatching20US 5,841,084 AOtis Elevator Company · 1998
- Estimation of lobby traffic and traffic rate using fuzzy logic to control elevator dispatching for single source traffic16US 5,750,946 AOtis Elevator Company · 1998
- Dynamic scheduling elevator dispatcher for single source traffic conditions16US 5,786,550 AOtis Elevator Company · 1998