US Patent Issued to Kone on June 17 for "Operational entity and a multicar elevator system for controlling movement of a plurality of elevator cars of a multicar elevator system" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,907, issued on June 17, was assigned to Kone Corp. (Helsinki).

"Operational entity and a multicar elevator system for controlling movement of a plurality of elevator cars of a multicar elevator system" was invented by Antti Kallioniemi (Helsinki), Antti Saarelainen (Helsinki) and Paul Karlstedt (Helsinki).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An operational entity for controlling movement of a plurality of elevator cars of a multicar elevator system includes a user interface having a first input element and a second input element. The user interface generates, on the basis of the first input element, an indication of selection of at least on...