US Patent Issued to KONE on Dec. 30 for "Energy storage system for an elevator car, and a method and an apparatus for monitoring the energy storage system" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,327, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to KONE Corp. (Helsinki).

"Energy storage system for an elevator car, and a method and an apparatus for monitoring the energy storage system" was invented by Pekka Perunka (Helsinki), Mikko Puranen (Helsinki), Janne Ofversten (Helsinki), Ville Thomenius (Helsinki) and Jari Romo (Helsinki).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an aspect, there is provided an energy storage system for an elevator car of an elevator system, comprising an energy storage; an energy storage management system connected to the energy storage and configured to monitor a state of the energy storage. The energy storage ...