US Patent Issued to KONE on June 16 for "Control of an elevator system" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,983, issued on June 16, was assigned to KONE Corp. (Helsinki).

"Control of an elevator system" was invented by Marja-Liisa Siikonen (Helsinki) and Janne Sorsa (Helsinki).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to an elevator system comprising: a plurality of elevator sub-systems and a group controller configured to control the plurality of the elevator sub-systems, wherein the group controller is configured to: determine an efficiency of the elevator system; and control, in accordance with the efficiency of the elevator system, at least one elevator sub-system to serve elevator calls at different zones from at least one o...