ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,107, issued on July 21, was assigned to Lutron Technology Co. LLC (Coopersburg, Pa.).

"Configuration for a load regulation device for lighting control" was invented by Matthew Knauss (Somerville, Mass.) and Christopher G. Udall (Plainville, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A load regulation device, such as an LED driver, may be configured to control the intensity of a light source based on an analog control signal and a preconfigured dimming curve. The LED driver may sense a magnitude of the analog control signal and determine a new low-end and/or high-end control signal magnitude that falls outside of the input signal range of t...