US Patent Issued to Arctevity on Dec. 9 for "Multi-function light switch with board stack" (New Hampshire, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,499, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Arctevity Inc. (Woburn, Mass.).

"Multi-function light switch with board stack" was invented by Robert Seliger (Beverly, Mass.), Christopher Egan (Concord, N.H.) and Alexander William Seiger (Manchester, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-function switch for controlling various functions of building systems includes a board stack with a plurality of PCBs configured to reside entirely within an off-the-shelf single gang wall switch box. The external components of the light switch have the appearance of a standard light switch familiar to the user. This reduces device clutter, complexity, u...