US Patent Issued to Kone on Feb. 10 for "Elevator parking brake, a method for operating an elevator system and an elevator system" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,550, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Kone Corp. (Helsinki).

"Elevator parking brake, a method for operating an elevator system and an elevator system" was invented by Antti Koskinen (Helsinki), Petri Hartikainen (Helsinki), Pekka Hallikainen (Helsinki), Janne Salomaki (Helsinki), Antti Saarelainen (Helsinki), Henri Wenlin (Helsinki), Risto Jokinen (Helsinki), Timo Vlasov (Helsinki), Mikko Puranen (Helsinki), Esa Putkinen (Helsinki), Jyrki Laaksonheimo (Helsinki), Lauri Stolt (Helsinki), Tuukka Kauppinen (Helsinki), Jarkko Saloranta (Helsinki), Hilkka Hamalainen (Helsinki) and Sami Saarela (Helsinki).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A...