US Patent Issued to KONE on Oct. 27 for "Elevator system" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,190, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to KONE Corp. (Helsinki).

"Elevator system" was invented by Jari Kantola (Helsinki), Jouni Lappalainen (Helsinki) and Lasse Nyman (Helsinki).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an aspect, there is provided an elevator system comprising an elevator car configured to move in an elevator shaft; a counterweight associated with the elevator car, the counterweight configured to move in the elevator shaft; a compensation member coupled to the elevator car and the counterweight, the compensation member being diverted by a compensation pulley disposed in an elevator pit; and a manual rescue device d...