US Patent Issued to KONE on July 28 for "Solution for overspeed monitoring of an elevator car" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,121, issued on July 28, was assigned to KONE Corp. (Helsinki).

"Solution for overspeed monitoring of an elevator car" was invented by Mikko Viljanen (Helsinki), Henri Wenlin (Helsinki), Asmo Tenhunen (Helsinki), Antti Kallioniemi (Helsinki) and Mikko Parviainen (Helsinki).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An elevator system includes at least two elevator cars adapted to travel in respective separate hoistways of the same building. The at least two elevator cars have at least two different rated speeds including lowest rated speed and a rated speed higher than the lowest rated speed. At least each elevator car with the rated speed higher ...