ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,690, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to NAVER Corp. (Seongnam-si, South Korea).
"Method and system for controlling elevator for robot passengers" was invented by Seoktae Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and Yesook Im (Seongnam-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of controlling an elevator includes detecting that a robot providing a service on a floor within a building has gotten on an elevator moving through floors within the building, and controlling the elevator to move to a floor where the robot is to provide the service. At least one of the internal user interface and the external user interface of the elevator ...