ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,176, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Lutron Technology Co. LLC (Coopersburg, Pa.).

"Energy-supply system for supplying energy to an electrical load from a battery" was invented by Stuart W. DeJonge (Riegelsville, Pa.), Daniel Fay (Allentown, Pa.) and Yonglan Ye (Orefield, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motorized window treatment may be configured to adjust a position of a covering material to control the amount of daylight entering a space. The motorized window treatment may include a DC power source for charging an energy storage element, such as a supercapacitor and/or rechargeable battery. The energy storage element may...