US Patent Issued to TE Connectivity Solutions, Tyco Electronics (Shanghai), Kunshan League Automechanism on June 23 for "System and method of enabling a mobile robot to take an elevator autonomously" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,351, issued on June 23, was assigned to TE Connectivity Solutions GmbH (Schaffhausen, Switzerland), Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd. (Shanghai) and Kunshan League Automechanism Co. Ltd. (Kunshan City, China).

"System and method of enabling a mobile robot to take an elevator autonomously" was invented by Yingcong Deng (Shanghai), Dandan Zhang (Shanghai), Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu (Bellevue, Wash.), Fengchun Xie (Shanghai) and Mingyang Weng (Kunshan City, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for enabling a mobile robot to utilize an elevator autonomously comprises a pressing module including at least one pressing finger adap...