US Patent Issued to Lutron Technology on March 11 for "Controlling a controllably conductive device based on zero-crossing detection" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,472, issued on March 11, was assigned to Lutron Technology Co. LLC (Coopersburg, Pa.).

"Controlling a controllably conductive device based on zero-crossing detection" was invented by Robert W. Lenig (Bethlehem, Pa.), Michael Sizemore (Center Valley, Pa.), Joshua W. Thaler (Philadelphia) and Russell L. MacAdam (Coopersburg, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A load control device may control power delivered to an electrical load from an AC power source. The load control device may include a controllably conductive device adapted to be coupled in series electrical connection between the AC power source and the electrical load, a zero-...