US Patent Issued to Kone on Nov. 3 for "Elevator car and elevator" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,608, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Kone Corp. (Helsinki).

"Elevator car and elevator" was invented by Aleksi Immonen (Helsinki), Tommi Rautio (Helsinki), Ari Pitkanen (Helsinki), Ville Myyrylainen (Helsinki) and Tapani Talonen (Helsinki).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An elevator car and elevator that includes a pulley frame; a cabin frame mounted on the pulley frame; one or more pulleys mounted on the pulley frame; and at least one elastically deformable support member between the cabin frame and the pulley frame, the cabin frame resting on the at least one elastically deformable support member on the pulley frame. The elevator ca...