US Patent Issued to Lutron Technology on Oct. 28 for "Remote control having a capacitive touch surface and a mechanism for awakening the remote control" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,367, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Lutron Technology Co. LLC (Coopersburg, Pa.).

"Remote control having a capacitive touch surface and a mechanism for awakening the remote control" was invented by Timothy Mann (Quakertown, Pa.), Matthew Philip McDonald (Phoenixville, Pa.), Lawrence R. Carmen Jr. (Bath, Pa.) and Robert D. Stevens Jr. (Emmaus, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A remote control device having capacitive touch controls may be configured to enter a sleep state (or mode). For example, the remote control device may be configured to enter the sleep state upon expiration of an interval of time since a most recent button ...