US Patent Issued to Lutron Technology on Sept. 16 for "Gesture-based load control via wearable devices" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,774, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Lutron Technology Co. LLC (Coopersburg, Pa.).

"Gesture-based load control via wearable devices" was invented by Rhodes B. Baker (Bethlehem, Pa.), Erica L. Clymer (Northampton, Pa.), Galen Edgar Knode (Macungie, Pa.), Sanjeev Kumar (Harleysville, Pa.), John Nill (Emmaus, Pa.), Daniel L. Twaddell (Bethlehem, Pa.) and Michael J. Zizza (Bethlehem, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A load control system may include control-target devices for controlling an amount of power provided to an electrical load. The control-target devices may be capable of controlling the amount of power provided to the e...