ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,215, issued on July 29, was assigned to Lutron Technology Co. LLC (Coopersburg, Pa.).

"Control module for a driver for an electrical load" was invented by Jonathan Picard (Bethlehem, Pa.), Johnathan Paul Ross (Bethlehem, Pa.) and Robert D. Stevens Jr. (Emmaus, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lighting control system for controlling a cumulative light emitted by a lighting fixture may comprise a light-emitting diode (LED) driver comprising an output for conducting an output current, and a control module electrically coupled to the output of the LED driver for receiving the output current. The LED driver may regulate the magnitude ...