ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,656, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to TE Connectivity Solutions GmbH (Schaffhausen, Switzerland), Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd. (Shanghai) and Kunshan League Automechanism Co. Ltd. (Kunshan, China).

"System for mobile robot to autonomously take elevator" was invented by Yingcong Deng (Shanghai), Dandan Zhang (Shanghai), Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu (Bellevue, Wash.), Fengchun Xie (Shanghai) and Mingyang Weng (KunShan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for a mobile robot to autonomously take an elevator includes an elevator button pressing module mounted on an elevator floor control panel of the elevator. The elevator ...