US Patent Issued to Lutron Technology on Oct. 14 for "Load control device for a light-emitting diode light source" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,131, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Lutron Technology Co. LLC (Coopersburg, Pa.).

"Load control device for a light-emitting diode light source" was invented by Venkatesh Chitta (Center Valley, Pa.), Jeffrey S. Hayes (Allentown, Pa.) and Robert D. Stevens Jr. (Emmaus, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling an amount of power delivered to an electrical load may include controlling an average magnitude of a load current towards a target load current that ranges from a maximum-rated current to a minimum-rated current in a normal mode and controlling the average magnitude of the load current below the minimum-rate...