ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,650,733, issued on June 9, was assigned to Lutron Technology Co. LLC (Coopersburg, Pa.).
"Gesture-based load control" was invented by Soumya Jain (Allentown, Pa.), Michael J. Zizza (Bethlehem, Pa.) and John Nill (Emmaus, Pa.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A load control system may include load control devices for controlling an amount of power provided to an electrical load. The load control devices may be capable of controlling the amount of power provided to the electrical load based on control instructions received from a gesture-based control device. The gesture-based control device may identify gestures performed by a user for contro...