US Patent Issued to Kone on Aug. 4 for "Construction arrangement of an elevator and a method" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,186, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Kone Corp. (Helsinki).

"Construction arrangement of an elevator and a method" was invented by Otto Lanz (Helsinki), Matti Rasanen (Helsinki), Markku Haapaniemi (Helsinki), Anssi Venho (Helsinki), Janne Laine (Helsinki), Mika Ijas (Helsinki) and Mikko Kukkola (Helsinki).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A construction arrangement of an elevator, includes a hoistway, a protection deck arranged within the hoistway for protecting the portion of the hoistway below it from falling objects, wherein the protection deck includes a frame mounted on stationary structure of the hoistway, and a cover co-operating...