US Patent Issued on Feb. 10 for "Method for controlling a flight-capable drone in an elevator shaft of an elevator system, and elevator system inspection arrangement" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,184, issued on Feb. 10.

"Method for controlling a flight-capable drone in an elevator shaft of an elevator system, and elevator system inspection arrangement" was invented by Raphael Bitzi (Lucerne, Switzerland), Alberto Chiappa (Saint-Sulpice, Switzerland), Martin Kusserow (Lucerne, Switzerland) and Lucas Walti (Lausanne, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling a flight-capable drone in an elevator shaft of an elevator system uses an elevator system inspection arrangement configured for carrying out the method. The method comprises the following steps: receiving elevator shaft segment information provided...