US Patent Issued to Lutron Technology on April 22 for "Gesture-based control device for controlling an electrical load" (Pennsylvania, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,445, issued on April 22, was assigned to Lutron Technology Co. LLC (Coopersburg, Pa.).

"Gesture-based control device for controlling an electrical load" was invented by Chris Dimberg (Easton, Pa.), Matthew V. Harte (Stewartsville, N.J.), Matthew Philip McDonald (Phoenixville, Pa.), Daniel L. Twaddell (Bethlehem, Pa.), Jason C. Killo (Emmaus, Pa.) and Brad Michael Kreschollek (Bethlehem, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device may be configured to control one or more electrical loads in a load control system. The control device may be a wall-mounted device such as dimmer switch, a remote control device, or a retrofit remote...