US Patent Issued to KONE on March 11 for "System and a method for detecting an out-of-operation state of an elevator system" (Finnish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,946, issued on March 11, was assigned to KONE Corp. (Helsinki).

"System and a method for detecting an out-of-operation state of an elevator system" was invented by Jouko Kinnari (Helsinki).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for detecting an out-of-operation state of an elevator system includes a monitoring unit and a sensor unit. The sensor unit is configured to: detect at least one event indicating a generation of an elevator call and provide a message indicating the generation of an elevator call to the monitoring unit. The monitoring unit is configured to: initiate a time measuring function in response to receiving the messag...