US Patent Issued to Lutron Technology Company LIC on Feb. 18 for "Network formation for a load control system" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,296, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Lutron Technology Co. LIC (Coopersburg, Pa.).

"Network formation for a load control system" was invented by Ankit Bhutani (Aston, Pa.), Vidur Garg (Allentown, Pa.), Jeffrey S. Hayes (Allentown, Pa.) and Galen Edgar Knode (Macungie, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device may be configured to delay an attachment procedure while attachment messages are being transmitted over the network. The control device may be configured to initiate an attachment procedure with a router device on a network at the end a back-off period of time. The attachment procedure may include transmitting attac...