ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,670, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to KONE Corp. (Helsinki).

"Method and apparatus for setting state of scenario detection module of escalator" was invented by Jinquan Fan (Jiangsu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for setting the state of a scenario detection module of an escalator includes: acquiring running direction information of an escalator; and according to at least the running direction information, setting the states of the scenario detection modules U1, U2.., UN in a scenario detection module set U for the escalator to be activated or disabled. The computing capability required for scenario detection of the ...