US Patent Issued to KONE on March 24 for "Elevator control unit and a method for determining energy and/or power consumption of an elevator" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,710, issued on March 24, was assigned to KONE Corp. (Helsinki).

"Elevator control unit and a method for determining energy and/or power consumption of an elevator" was invented by Pekka Perala (Helsinki), Pekka Perunka (Helsinki), Juhamatti Nikander (Helsinki) and Tapio Tyni (Helsinki).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An elevator and a method for determining energy and/or power consumption of an elevator, the elevator comprising a drive system comprising a drive unit for driving an electric motor and an elevator control system for controlling the drive system, wherein at least two different operating states are used for the elevator. T...