ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,996, issued on May 13, was assigned to Lutron Technology Co. LLC (Coopersburg, Pa.).
"Direct-current power distribution in a control system" was invented by Stuart W. DeJonge (Riegelsville, Pa.) and Chen Ming Wu (Emmaus, Pa.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control system may include a direct-current (DC) power bus for charging internal energy storage elements in control devices of the control system. For example, the control devices may be motorized window treatments configured to adjust a position of a covering material to control the amount of daylight entering a space. The system may include a bus power supply that may generate a...