US Patent Issued to Lutron Technology on Dec. 2 for "System having dimmers and lighting devices configured for phase-control dimming and digital communication" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,358, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Lutron Technology Co. LLC (Coopersburg, Pa.).

"System having dimmers and lighting devices configured for phase-control dimming and digital communication" was invented by Rhodes B. Baker (Allentown, Pa.), Gerard Darville (Macungie, Pa.), Matthew V. Harte (Stewartsville, Pa.) and Robert C. Newman Jr. (Emmaus, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A smart lighting device may be configured to be controlled in response to control instructions in messages and/or phase-control signals. The smart lighting device may determine whether to respond to the phase-control signal or the control instructions in mess...