US Patent Issued to Lutron Technology on Aug. 5 for "Load control device for a light-emitting diode light source" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,559, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Lutron Technology Co. LLC (Coopersburg, Pa.).

"Load control device for a light-emitting diode light source" was invented by Timothy P. Gredler (Center Valley, Pa.) and Matthew R. Zartman (Bethlehem, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A load control device for controlling the intensity of a lighting load, such as a light-emitting diode (LED) light source, may include a power converter circuit operable to receive a rectified AC voltage and to generate a DC bus voltage, a load regulation circuit operable to receive the bus voltage and to control the magnitude of a load current conducted through the ...