US Patent Issued to Leviton Manufacturing on Jan. 27 for "Dynamic thresholding for ambient light-based load control" (Louisiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,404, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Leviton Manufacturing Co. Inc. (Melville, N.Y.).

"Dynamic thresholding for ambient light-based load control" was invented by Brian Anthony Yokum (New Orleans) and Ronald James Gumina (Mandeville, La.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Approaches for controlling supply of power to a load in an environment based on ambient light sensing and dynamic thresholding include, based on an ambient light level in the environment decreasing to a turn-on threshold light level, controlling a switch of an electrical load controller to couple the supply of electrical power to the lighting load, sensing a current a...