ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,505, issued on July 1, was assigned to Inventio AG (Hergiswil, Switzerland).
"Elevator system with visitor operating mode" was invented by Guntram Begle (Weggis, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a system with an elevator system, a host can grant a visitor access to a building and switch the elevator system into a visitor operating mode in order to transport the visitor to a destination floor. The host can initiate a movement of the elevator car to a first defined floor, on which a visitor would like to enter an elevator car, by means of an input on a mobile device. A camera arranged in the elevator car and a camera record...