US Patent Issued to Otis Elevator on July 21 for "Method and apparatus for providing elevator service to a target device with self-propelled capability" (Chinese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,589, issued on July 21, was assigned to Otis Elevator Co. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Method and apparatus for providing elevator service to a target device with self-propelled capability" was invented by Xingang Gou (Tianjin, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for providing elevator services includes: generating a dispatch command for stopping an elevator to a departure floor of a target device with self-propelled capability in response to an elevator reservation message from a computer system, wherein the elevator reservation message includes an identification of the target device and an identification of the departure floor; ...