ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,474, issued on May 13, was assigned to Hunter Industries Inc. (San Marcos, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for providing power and data to devices" was invented by Peter John Woytowitz (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided to transmit a data encoded power signal to addressable devices. A lighting controller sends the data encoded power waveform to a plurality of addressable lighting modules to power and control illumination intensity of lighting. The lighting modules are configured to receive the data encoded power signal via a two-wire communication network, decode illumination intensity data from ...