ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,584, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to INVENTIO AG (Hergiswil, Switzerland).

"System for transporting passengers, and method for optimizing the operation of the system for transporting passengers" was invented by Philippe Henneau (Zurich, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for transporting passengers includes a passenger transportation installation designed as an elevator, escalator or moving walkway, a main energy supply supplying the passenger transportation installation with electrical energy, a main switch separating the passenger transportation installation from the main energy supply, which main switch has an ...