ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,427, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to KONE Corp. (Helsinki).
"Device management for hybrid elevator environments" was invented by Santtu Koskinen (Helsinki), Mikko Piironen (Helsinki), Anssi Rantamaki (Helsinki), Mikko Heiskanen (Helsinki), Ari Koivisto (Helsinki) and Mikko Mattila (Helsinki).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To have an integrated device management for a hybrid elevator environment, at least one converter for converting device management messages according to a second protocol used by one or more peripheral devices to be according to a first protocol, which is used by the device management of the elevator environment, ...