US Patent Issued to Kone on Jan. 28 for "Elevator safety arrangement configured to detect a load on a working platform and elevator" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,208,991, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Kone Corp. (Helsinki).

"Elevator safety arrangement configured to detect a load on a working platform and elevator" was invented by Ari Kattainen (Helsinki), Juha-Matti Aitamurto (Helsinki), Antti Hovi (Helsinki), Juha Panula (Helsinki), Jari Kantola (Helsinki), Matti Rasanen (Helsinki), Janne Mikkonen (Helsinki), Nithil Karimpanackal Natarajan (Helsinki), Jari Pursiainen (Helsinki) and Markku Haapaniemi (Helsinki).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to an elevator safety arrangement comprising a hoistway; an elevator car mounted in the hoistway; a working platform mounted on to...