ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,258, issued on July 1, was assigned to Lutron Technology Co. LLC (Coopersburg, Pa.).
"Load control on wired and wireless communication links" was invented by Mark Eiding (Quakertown, Pa.), Mark Ryan Lopez (Lansdale, Pa.), David L. Wykes Jr. (Quakertown, Pa.) and Noopur Zokarkar (Bethlehem, Pa.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A load controller in a load control system may communicate messages with controllable loads on a plurality of loops for controlling electrical loads. Each controllable load may include a load control device and an associated electrical load. The messages received by the load controller may include a zone identifier...