ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,731, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to KONE Corp. (Helsinki).

"Arrangement for transferring transportation infrastructure control data within a shared data network" was invented by Santtu Koskinen (Helsinki), Mikko Piironen (Helsinki), Ari Koivisto (Helsinki), Mikko Mattila (Helsinki), Mikko Heiskanen (Helsinki) and Anssi Rantamaki (Helsinki).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An arrangement for connecting transportation infrastructure peripheral devices, such as elevator and escalator peripheral devices, to a transportation infrastructure devices, such as elevator, using a building network is disclosed. In the arrangement a virtually de...