US Patent Issued to Kone on May 13 for "Remote monitoring system and a method for remotely monitoring an elevator system" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,074, issued on May 13, was assigned to Kone Corp. (Helsinki).

"Remote monitoring system and a method for remotely monitoring an elevator system" was invented by Jouko Kinnari (Helsinki), Matti Laakso (Helsinki) and Olli Mali (Helsinki).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A remote monitoring system for an elevator system includes at least one remotely operable intermediate device and a monitoring unit for remotely controlling operation of the at least one intermediate device at least partly. The monitoring unit controls at least one intermediate device to generate a remote command for controlling at least one operation of the elevator syste...