ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,652, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Kone Corp. (Helsinki).

"Remote operation of an elevator" was invented by Ari Kattainen (Helsinki) and Juha-Matti Aitamurto (Helsinki).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an aspect, there is provided a method for remote operation of a plurality of elevators in a centralized manner by a remote service system, the remote service system comprising a remote communication computer and wherein each of the plurality of elevators comprises an elevator controller associated with a communication computer. The method comprises receiving, by a remote service system from the communication computer ass...