ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,229, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Tridonic GmbH & Co KG (Dornbirn, Austria).

"Building technology device" was invented by Frank Lochmann (Achberg, Germany) and Lukas Simma (Hohenweiler, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a building technology device (100), for example an LED driver (200), comprising: a first control unit (101) and a second control unit (103), wherein the first control unit (101) is configured to execute a software, and wherein the second control unit (103) is configured to execute a further software, in particular an embedded software of the building technology device (100); an inte...