ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,082, issued on July 1, was assigned to Lutron Technology Co. LLC (Coopersburg, Pa.).

"Configuration and control of load control systems" was invented by Horace C. Ho (Austin, Texas), Grant Oesterling (Austin, Texas) and Kenneth Priester (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The computing device may be configured to automatically determine curated configuration settings for a scene that is configured to control one or more zones. Each of the zones may be assigned a respective zone purpose. Each zone may be assigned at least one load control device that is configured to control a corresponding electrical load. Each of the one or...