US Patent Issued to KONE on June 16 for "Elevator safety system, method for collision protection in an elevator system, and elevator system" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,988, issued on June 16, was assigned to KONE Corp. (Helsinki).

"Elevator safety system, method for collision protection in an elevator system, and elevator system" was invented by Juha-Matti Aitamurto (Helsinki) and Ari Kattainen (Helsinki).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An elevator safety system includes an elevator control unit configured to: monitor an elevator shaft, receive a position, a movement direction, and a speed of at least one elevator car arranged into the elevator shaft, and determine dynamically at least one authorized shaft section based on the monitoring, and on the position, the movement direction, and the speed of ...