US Patent Issued to Lutron Technology on June 24 for "Color temperature control of a lighting device" (Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,432, issued on June 24, was assigned to Lutron Technology Co. LLC (Coopersburg, Pa.).

"Color temperature control of a lighting device" was invented by Matthew R. Blakeley (Allentown, Pa.), Christopher M. Green (Austin, Texas), Peter MacLellan (Austin, Texas), Robert C. Newman Jr. (Emmaus, Pa.) and Jaykrishna A. Shukla (Mays Landing, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The lighting device may be configured to perform black body curve fading. For example, the control circuit may be configured to control the drive circuit such that the light emitted by the lighting load is adjusted (e.g., faded) along a black body curve. The control cir...