ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,964, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Lutron Technology Co. LLC (Coopersburg, Pa.).

"Control device for controlling multiple operating characteristics of an electrical load" was invented by Chris Dimberg (Easton, Pa.) and Daniel L. Twaddell (Allentown, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A load control device may be configured to control multiple characteristics of one or more electrical loads such as the intensity and color of a lighting load. The load control device may switch from controlling one characteristic of the electrical loads to controlling another characteristic of the electrical loads based on the position and/or ori...