ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,281, issued on June 3, was assigned to Lutron Technology Co. LLC (Coopersburg, Pa.).
"Controlling groups of electrical loads" was invented by Timothy Mann (Quakertown, Pa.), Robert C. Newman Jr. (Emmaus, Pa.), Thomas Lee Olson (Pennsburg, Pa.) and Jaykrishna A. Shukla (Mays Landing, N.J.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A load control system may include control devices for controlling electrical loads. The control devices may include load control devices, such as a lighting device for controlling an amount of power provided to a lighting load, and controller devices, such as a remote control device configured to transmit digital message...