ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,705, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to KONE Corp. (Helsinki).
"Elevator communication system" was invented by Ari Kattainen (Helsinki), Ferenc Staengler (Helsinki), Juha-Matti Aitamurto (Helsinki) and Gergely Huszak (Helsinki).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An elevator communication system includes a first elevator controller, a second elevator controller communicatively connected to the first elevator controller, a first ethernet bus portion connected to the first elevator controller, a second ethernet bus portion connected to the second elevator controller, and at least one elevator system node communicatively connected to the fi...