ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,367, issued on April 22, was assigned to Lutron Technology Co. LLC (Coopersburg, Pa.).

"Operational coordination of load control devices for control of electrical loads" was invented by John H. Bull (Coplay, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A load control device for controlling the power delivered from an AC power source to an electrical load is able to receive radio-frequency (RF) signals from a Wi-Fi-enabled device, such as a smart phone, via a wireless local area network. The load control device comprises a controllably conductive device, a controller for rendering the controllably conductive device conductive and non-conductive,...