US Patent Issued to Kone on March 25 for "Elevator including safety monitoring that prevents excessive deceleration during slowdown failure" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,241, issued on March 25, was assigned to Kone Corp. (Helsinki).

"Elevator including safety monitoring that prevents excessive deceleration during slowdown failure" was invented by Riku Lampinen (Helsinki) and Juha-Matti Aitamurto (Helsinki).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An elevator including an elevator shaft defined by top and bottom end terminals; an elevator car vertically movable in the elevator shaft; an elevator hoisting machinery drives the elevator car; an electromechanical braking apparatus that brakes movement of the elevator car; a first measuring device that provides first position data and first speed data of the elevat...