ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,712, issued on March 24, was assigned to Kone Corp. (Helsinki).
"Elevator communication system" was invented by Ari Kattainen (Helsinki), Juha-Matti Aitamurto (Helsinki), Gergely Huszak (Helsinki) and Ferenc Staengler (Helsinki).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an aspect, there is provided an elevator communication system. The system comprises an ethernet bus, at least one message forwarding element connected to the ethernet bus and being configured to communicate with a control entity that is external to the elevator system, and at least one elevator system component configured to communicate via the ethernet bus and bein...