US Patent Issued to KONE on May 27 for "Elevator car and construction-time elevator arrangement and method" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,212, issued on May 27, was assigned to KONE Corp. (Helsinki).

"Elevator car and construction-time elevator arrangement and method" was invented by Simo Makimattila (Helsinki) and Emil Hagstrom (Helsinki).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An elevator car includes a first floor for delimiting a transport space above it, and a second floor for delimiting a second transport space above it. One of the first and second floors is a displaceable floor, the elevator car being shiftable between a double-decker-state and a single decker-state by displacing the displaceable floor. A construction-time elevator arrangement and a method for elevator us...