ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,685, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to KONE Corp. (Helsinki).

"Haptic feedback solution for one or more elevator systems" was invented by Jonas Nordfors (Helsinki) and Atif Malik (Helsinki).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for a haptic feedback system for one or more elevator systems includes detecting a user indication provided via a user interface device of one of the one or more elevator systems, receiving at least one status information, and generating a haptic output signal via the user interface device in accordance with the at least one status information. A control unit, a haptic feedback system and a computer program ...