ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,945, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Kone Corp. (Helsinki).
"Elevator construction arrangement and a method" was invented by Mika Ijas (Helsinki), Matti Rasanen (Helsinki), Mikko Kukkola (Helsinki), Markku Haapaniemi (Helsinki), Janne Laine (Helsinki) and Otto Lanz (Helsinki).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An elevator construction arrangement comprises: a hoistway having a bottom section, a top section and optionally at least one intermediate section between the bottom and top sections in a building, an elevator car, a counterweight, car guide rails for guiding the car, counterweight guide rails for guiding the counterweight, an elev...