US Patent Issued to Tyco Fire & Security on April 21 for "Systems and methods for protecting robot tailgating in building environments" (Wisconsin Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,417, issued on April 21, was assigned to Tyco Fire & Security GmbH (Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland).

"Systems and methods for protecting robot tailgating in building environments" was invented by Christopher Cianciolo (Milwaukee).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for protecting autonomous mobile machine tailgating may include an elevator control system that receives, from an autonomous mobile machine, an request signal requesting access by the autonomous mobile machine to a restricted floor of a facility. The elevator control system may also determine a presence of an individual in an elevator with the autonomou...