US Patent Issued to Kone on July 15 for "Solution for operating an elevator having different elevator car motion profiles" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,754, issued on July 15, was assigned to Kone Corp. (Helsinki).

"Solution for operating an elevator having different elevator car motion profiles" was invented by Mikko Viljanen (Helsinki), Henri Wenlin (Helsinki), Asmo Tenhunen (Helsinki), Antti Kallioniemi (Helsinki) and Mikko Parviainen (Helsinki).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for operating an elevator system. The method comprises receiving a request to drive an elevator car to a destination and generating an elevator car motion profile to serve the received request. The elevator car motion profile comprises at least the following motion parameters...