US Patent Issued to Lutron Technology on March 25 for "Load control device having a closed-loop gate drive circuit including overcurrent protection" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,521, issued on March 25, was assigned to Lutron Technology Co. LLC (Coopersburg, Pa.).

"Load control device having a closed-loop gate drive circuit including overcurrent protection" was invented by Brian J. Bollinger (Quakertown, Pa.), Venkatesh Chitta (Center Valley, Pa.), Firozbabu Cholashari (Macungie, Pa.) and Jonathan Waldron (Bethlehem, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A load control device for controlling power delivered from an AC power source to an electrical load may have a closed-loop gate drive circuit for controlling a semiconductor switch of a controllably conductive device. The controllably conductive device may be ...