ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,823, issued on April 8, was assigned to Lutron Technology Co. LLC (Coopersburg, Pa.).
"Control device having an adaptive transmit power" was invented by Ankit Bhutani (Aston, Pa.), Richard S. Camden (Coopersburg, Pa.) and Kaiming Li (Allentown, Pa.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device may be configured to transmit messages using an adaptive transmit power. The control device may determine a transmit power for transmitting the message based on a command in the message. The control device may determine a transmit power based on a change in lighting intensity caused by the command. The transmit power may be greater when the c...