ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,693, issued on March 31, was assigned to Lutron Technology Co. LLC (Coopersburg, Pa.).

"Method of controlling serially-connected lighting devices" was invented by Ryan M. Bocock (Austin, Texas), Richard S. Burberry (Austin, Texas), Christopher M. Green (Austin, Texas), Jivan J. Luu (Austin, Texas), Ananthanag Nemmani (Austin, Texas) and Jaykrishna A Shukla (Mays Landing, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lighting device may include an elongated housing that defines a cavity. The lighting device may include plurality of emitter printed circuit boards configured to be received within the cavity. Each of the plurality of emitter pr...