US Patent Issued to Lutron Technology on Feb. 10 for "Location-based configuration of a load control device" (Pennsylvania Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,854, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Lutron Technology Co. LLC (Coopersburg, Pa.).

"Location-based configuration of a load control device" was invented by Dragan Veskovic (Allentown, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of automatically programming a new load control device that replaces an old load control device takes advantage of a remote identification tag (e.g., an RFID tag) located in the vicinity of the old device. The remote identification tag stores an identifier that is representative of a location in which the old device is installed. The method includes the steps of: (1) storing a setting of an old device in a m...