ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,668, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Kone Corp. (Helsinki).
"Method for testing safety characteristics of an elevator" was invented by Ari Kattainen (Helsinki), Juha-Matti Aitamurto (Helsinki), Antti Saarelainen (Helsinki) and Jussi Lahteenmaki (Helsinki).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for testing safety characteristics of an elevator includes driving the car in a test run while the car is empty to perform a balance check of the elevator according to a request to perform the balance check; and adjustably controlling operation of the elevator based on a result of the balance check. Such adjustably controlling includes, base...