US Patent Issued to Otis Elevator on April 21 for "Control for interactive safety between elevator system and machine passenger" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,415, issued on April 21, was assigned to Otis Elevator Co. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Control for interactive safety between elevator system and machine passenger" was invented by Yu Zhang (Shanghai) and Shenhong Wang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An interaction safety control between an elevator system and a machine passenger. An interaction safety control method between an elevator system and a machine passenger, which includes: receiving a command from the machine passenger; based on a received command, determining the safety of the command with respect to the elevator system; and in case that the command is determined to b...