ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,084, issued on May 6, was assigned to Lutron Technology Co. LLC (Coopersburg, Pa.).
"State retention load control system" was invented by Ankit Bhutani (Bethlehem, Pa.), Matthew Knauss (Somerville, Mass.), Timothy Mann (Quakertown, Pa.), Michael W. Pessina (Allentown, Pa.), David T. Saveri III (Nazareth, Pa.) and Matthew J. Swatsky (Allentown, Pa.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device may detect a power removal event, determine whether the power removal event is a local power removal event or a system power removal event, and perform state correction. For example, the device may receive an indication of a state change event turning...