US Patent Issued to Lutron Technology on July 29 for "Control device having buttons with automatically adjustable backlighting" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,206, issued on July 29, was assigned to Lutron Technology Co. LLC (Coopersburg, Pa.).

"Control device having buttons with automatically adjustable backlighting" was invented by Daniel L. Twaddell (Bethlehem, Pa.), Matthew Philip McDonald (Phoenixville, Pa.), Jason C. Killo (Emmaus, Pa.) and Jonathan Robert Quayle (Bethlehem, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device may comprise a plurality of buttons, a plurality of light sources located behind the respective buttons and configured to illuminate the buttons, a light detector circuit configured to measure an ambient light level around the control device, and/or a control ci...