US Patent Issued to Kone on Sept. 23 for "Method and an elevator system for defining an elongation of an elevator car suspension device" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,081, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Kone Corp. (Helsinki).

"Method and an elevator system for defining an elongation of an elevator car suspension device" was invented by Ari Kattainen (Helsinki) and Antti Hovi (Helsinki).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for defining elongation of an elevator car suspension means. The method comprises: obtaining periodically a value representing an overtravel distance of the elevator car, and defining the elongation of the elevator car suspension means on a basis of the periodically obtained values representing the overtravel distance of the elevator car. The inve...