US Patent Issued to Pentair Water Pool & Spa on Jan. 20 for "Systems and methods for controlling pool/spa devices" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,718, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Pentair Water Pool & Spa Inc. (Cary, N.C.).

"Systems and methods for controlling pool/spa devices" was invented by David MacCallum (Camarillo, Calif.), Ed Brown (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) and Keith Lewis (Newbury Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for the control of pool or spa device circuits. A control system load center may control pool or spa device circuits in response to command data received from local or remote client devices. Activating a feature circuit may involve performing an associated logic function. Multiple feature circuits may be assigned...