US Patent Issued to The Watt Stopper on July 29 for "Zero power lighting control device and method" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,214, issued on July 29, was assigned to The Watt Stopper Inc. (Carlsbad, Calif.).

"Zero power lighting control device and method" was invented by Steven Mix (Carlsbad, Calif.), Tho Phan (Carlsbad, Calif.), Thomas L. Grey (Carlsbad, Calif.) and Louia Weidman (Carlsbad, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is directed to a lighting control system with a motion sensor unit that electrically couples to a load circuit through a latching relay or load controller for turning on and off lights. The motion sensor unit is configured to power down to draw zero power after a time delay, when motion is longer detected withi...