US Patent Issued to KONE on July 28 for "Multicar elevator system" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,128, issued on July 28, was assigned to KONE Corp. (Helsinki).

"Multicar elevator system" was invented by Tero Hakala (Helsinki), Tuukka Korhonen (Helsinki), Pasi Raassina (Helsinki), Antti Kallioniemi (Helsinki), Henry Piitulainen (Helsinki), Vuokko Loksy (Helsinki) and Ari Koivisto (Helsinki).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a multicar elevator system, comprising: a plurality of elevator cars; an elevator shaft system; the plurality of the elevator cars and the elevator shaft system comprising a plurality of elevator components; a controller; the multicar elevator system further comprising: an elevator mainten...