ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,143, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Lutron Technology Co. LLC (Coopersburg, Pa.).
"System for controlling load control parameters over fade times" was invented by Mark Eiding (Quakertown, Pa.), Mark Ryan Lopez (Lansdale, Pa.) and David L. Wykes Jr. (Quakertown, Pa.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A load controller in a load control system may communicate messages with load control devices for controlling electrical loads. The load controller may receive messages that comprise values for controlling different load control parameters over different overlapping fade times. The load controller may identify a shorter remaining fade t...