US Patent Issued to HKC-US on July 22 for "Switch housing remote control" (Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,243, issued on July 22, was assigned to HKC-US LLC (Memphis, Tenn.).

"Switch housing remote control" was invented by Kent Mathis (Oakland, Tenn.), James Burns (Memphis, Tenn.) and Brendan Byrne (Germantown, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices, and methods for providing switch housing remote controls for ceiling fans. The remote receiver in the ceiling fan housing uses existing capacitors installed in the ceiling fan and shares those capacitors with existing mechanical pull chains for the ceiling fan, which eliminates the need for separate capacitors in the remote receiver. Small remote receiver housings can be locat...