ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,304, issued on July 29, was assigned to Kone Corp. (Helsinki).

"Elevator arrangement and method of constructing elevator" was invented by Matti Rasanen (Helsinki), Markku Haapaniemi (Helsinki), Aki Haikonen (Helsinki), Otto Lanz (Helsinki), Janne Laine (Helsinki), Sakari Korvenranta (Helsinki) and Jaakko Kahila (Helsinki).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to an elevator arrangement comprising an elevator shaft wall; and a guide rail line extending vertically at a distance from the shaft wall, the guide rail line being fixed to said wall with plurality of fixing brackets; and an elevator car vertically movable along ...