US Patent Issued to KONE on Aug. 25 for "Method for operating an elevator system and elevator system" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,732, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to KONE Corp. (Helsinki).

"Method for operating an elevator system and elevator system" was invented by Giovanni Hawkins (Helsinki), Andrea Zotti Galletti (Helsinki), Nithil Karimpanackal Natarajan (Helsinki), Benjamin Ekstrom (Helsinki), Aki Haikonen (Helsinki), Klaus Makela (Helsinki) and Sakke Ahoniemi (Helsinki).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating an elevator system that includes an elevator car movable between landings in response to an elevator call registered by an elevator control unit. The method includes determining a special operating mode of the elevator system, the sp...