ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,771, issued on June 10, was assigned to Lutron Technology Co. LLC (Coopersburg, Pa.).

"Temperature control device with automatically adjustable backlighting" was invented by Jason C. Killo (Emmaus, Pa.), Donald R. Mosebrook (Coopersburg, Pa.) and James P. Steiner (Royersford, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A temperature control device (e.g., a thermostat) may be configured to control an internal heat-generating electrical load so as to accurately measure a present temperature in a space around the temperature control device. The temperature control device may comprise a temperature sensing circuit configured to generate a tempera...