US Patent Issued to Kone on June 23 for "Monitoring of a door of an elevator" (Finnish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,354, issued on June 23, was assigned to Kone Corp. (Helsinki).

"Monitoring of a door of an elevator" was invented by Davide La Croce (Helsinki).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to an apparatus for detecting a state of an elevator door, the apparatus configured to: determine, on a basis of a pressure data, at least one indicator value indicative of a change in the pressure; compare the at least one indicator value to a respective reference value; and set, in accordance with a comparison between the at least one indicator value and the respective reference value, a detection result to express one of the follo...