US Patent Issued to KONE on Oct. 14 for "Method and system for an automatic rescue operation of an elevator car" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,587, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to KONE Corp. (Helsinki).

"Method and system for an automatic rescue operation of an elevator car" was invented by Juhamatti Nikander (Helsinki) and Janne Salomaki (Helsinki).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a system and method for an automatic rescue operation of an elevator car in an elevator system, the elevator system includes a hoisting machine and a battery-operated rescue drive device configured to provide power signals to the hoisting machine and/or hoisting machinery brakes. A load sensor is configured to gather elevator car load information, and the rescue drive device is configured to s...