ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,350, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Lutron Technology Co. LLC (Coopersburg, Pa.).

"Lighting control system with emergency mode" was invented by David J. Dolan (Coopersburg, Pa.), Jackson Burlew (Bethlehem, Pa.), Aditya Sreekumar (Coopersburg, Pa.) and Andrew G. Rohm (Somerville, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A load control system has a system controller and a plurality of load control devices which receive power from a power source. The load control system also includes at least one emergency load control device which receives power from a backup power source in the event of a power failure of the power source. The emergency...