ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,416, issued on April 21, was assigned to KONE Corp. (Helsinki).
"Method for aiding or managing a rescue operation" was invented by Ari Jussila (Helsinki) and Matti Leino (Helsinki).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for aiding or managing a rescue operation in an elevator system includes at least one elevator having a car driving in an elevator runway having several floors, and an elevator control which gathers data of components of the elevator system and issues a failure signal in any case of failure situation in the elevator system leading to a stop of the car between the floors. In the method it is checked based on first sen...