ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,694, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Kone Corp. (Helsinki).
"Method for operating an elevator" was invented by Jaakko Kalliomaki (Helsinki), Jarkko Saloranta (Helsinki), Mikko Puranen (Helsinki), Sakari Mantyla (Helsinki) and Joonas Sorvari (Helsinki).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for operating an elevator installed in connection with a building, particularly a high rise elevator, in which method the expected rope sway is monitored using building acceleration data obtained by means of a sensor to calculate a building sway, and whereby based on the building sway and the position of an elevator car ...