US Patent Issued to Otis Elevator on Dec. 16 for "Elevator calling coordination for robots and individuals" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,263, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Otis Elevator Co. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Elevator calling coordination for robots and individuals" was invented by Stephen Richard Nichols (Plantsville, Conn.), Michael P. Keenan Jr. (Suffield, Conn.), Enrico Manes (Feeding Hills, Mass.), Nicholas Cope (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Yu Zhang (Shanghai) and Shenhong Wang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of controlling a first elevator system comprising a first elevator car is including: receiving a first elevator call from a first robot for the first elevator system to transport the first robot from a first elevator bank on a landing to a des...