US Patent Issued to KONE on May 26 for "Method of assembling an elevator and an elevator" (Chinese, Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,330, issued on May 26, was assigned to KONE Corp. (Helsinki).

"Method of assembling an elevator and an elevator" was invented by Matti Rasanen (Helsinki), Otto Lanz (Helsinki), Juha Helenius (Helsinki), Markku Haapaniemi (Helsinki), Mikko Kukkola (Helsinki), Wen Sheng Luo (Kunshan, China), Kai Guo (Kunshan, China), XueSong Pan (Kunshan, China), Zhimin Zhang (Kunshan, China), Janne Laine (Helsinki) and Mika Ijas (Helsinki).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An elevator with an elevator car moving between landings at different levels in a first section of an elevator shaft that includes a second section located above the first section. The s...