ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,434, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Lutron Technology Co. LLC (Coopersburg, Pa.).
"Configuring communications for a load control system" was invented by John H. Bull (Slatington, Pa.), Jordan H. Crafts (Bethlehem, Pa.) and James P. Steiner (Royersford, Pa.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A load control system may include multiple control devices that may send load control messages to load control devices for controlling an amount of power provided electrical loads. To prevent collision of the load control messages, the load control messages may be transmitted using different wireless communication channels. Each wireless communica...