ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,803, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Lutron Technology Co. LLC (Coopersburg, Pa.).

"Commissioning and controlling load control devices" was invented by Todd G. Anderson (Bethlehem, Pa.), Maxwell Anselm (Bethlehem, Pa.), Alcides Dias (Bee Cave, Texas), Vidur Garg (Allentown, Pa.), Ashok Karmani (Lansdale, Pa.), Sanjeev Kumar (Harleysville, Pa.), Anantha Nag Nemmani (Austin, Texas), Sandeep Mudabail Raghuram (Breinigsville, Pa.), Somesh Rahul (Breinigsville, Pa.), Jaykrishna A. Shukla (Mays Landing, N.J.) and Surjith Bhagavath Singh (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A load control system may be commissioned using beacons...