US Patent Issued to Crestron Electronics on April 15 for "System and method for controlling one or more roller shades" (New Jersey, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,158, issued on April 15, was assigned to Crestron Electronics Inc. (Rockleigh, N.J.).

"System and method for controlling one or more roller shades" was invented by Victor M. Menendez (Carrollton, Texas) and Benjamin M. Slivka (Hillsdale, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and modes for controlling one or more roller shades in order to substantially synchronize and uniformly align a plurality of roller shades. Each shade comprises a roller tube, a shade material connected to the roller tube, a motor adapted to rotate the roller tube, and a controller. The controller is adapted to: drive the motor between a first limi...