ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,326, issued on May 6, was assigned to Lutron Technology Co. LLC (Coopersburg, Pa.).

"Emitter module for an LED illumination device" was invented by Kuo-Lih Chang (Austin, Texas), Mickey Malone (Paige, Texas) and Horace C. Ho (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An illumination device comprises one or more emitter modules having improved thermal and electrical characteristics. According to one embodiment, each emitter module comprises a plurality of light emitting diodes (LEDs) configured for producing illumination for the illumination device, one or more photodetectors configured for detecting the illumination produced by th...