US Patent Issued to Kone on Aug. 26 for "Rope anchor and elevator arrangement and method for constructing elevator" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,398,018, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Kone Corp. (Helsinki).

"Rope anchor and elevator arrangement and method for constructing elevator" was invented by Juha Helenius (Helsinki), Jorma Mustalahti (Helsinki), Matti Rasanen (Helsinki), Otto Lanz (Helsinki), Janne Laine (Helsinki), Anssi Venho (Helsinki), Markku Haapaniemi (Helsinki) and Aki Haikonen (Helsinki).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a rope anchor for anchoring one or more ropes of an elevator, comprising at least a wedge housing comprising a tapering nest shaped to have a narrow end which is open towards a first direction, and a wide end which is open ...