ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,698, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to KONE Corp. (Helsinki).
"Arrangement for detecting bearing failures in elevator" was invented by Antti Saarelainen (Helsinki), Henri Wenlin (Helsinki), Pasi Lehtimaki (Helsinki) and Janne Rossi (Helsinki).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An arrangement for detecting bearing failures in an elevator system, which elevator system includes a hoisting machinery with a traction sheave on a rotary shaft, an elevator car, a counterweight and a hoisting element connected between the car and the counterweight and arranged to be moved by the a rotation of the traction sheave, and which arrangement includes at...