US Patent Issued to Lutron Technology on Feb. 25 for "Sensor for detecting glare conditions" (Pennsylvania, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,238,839, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Lutron Technology Co. LLC (Coopersburg, Pa.).

"Sensor for detecting glare conditions" was invented by Craig Alan Casey (Coopersburg, Pa.), Yogesh Venkata Gopalan (Cambridge, Mass.) and Brent Protzman (Easton, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor and/or system controller may process an image multiple times at multiple resolutions to detect glare conditions. A glare condition threshold used to determine whether a glare condition exists may be based on the resolution of the image. When the resolution of the image is higher, the glare condition threshold may be higher. The sensor and/or syst...