US Patent Issued to Lutron Technology on Aug. 4 for "Load control device having an overcurrent protection circuit" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,792, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Lutron Technology Co. LLC (Coopersburg, Pa.).

"Load control device having an overcurrent protection circuit" was invented by Dinesh Sundara Moorthy (Allentown, Pa.) and James P. Steiner (Royersford, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A load control device for controlling power delivered from an alternating-current power source to an electrical load may comprise a controllably conductive device, a control circuit, and an overcurrent protection circuit that is configured to be disabled when the controllably conductive device is non-conductive. The control circuit may be configured to control the co...