US Patent Issued to Kone on Oct. 14 for "Elevator system, mobile robot, and method for generating elevator control signal using the mobile robot" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,582, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Kone Corp. (Helsinki).

"Elevator system, mobile robot, and method for generating elevator control signal using the mobile robot" was invented by Janne Aberg (Helsinki), Niko Elomaa (Helsinki) and Jukka Salmikuukka (Helsinki).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for controlling an elevator. In the method at least one control signal is generated for instructing the at least one mobile robot to a predetermined position. The at least one mobile robot generates at least one control signal to the elevator controller for controlling an elevator in response to an interaction ...