US Patent Issued to Lutron Technology on May 26 for "Controllable electrical outlet having a resonant loop antenna" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,457, issued on May 26, was assigned to Lutron Technology Co. LLC (Coopersburg, Pa.).

"Controllable electrical outlet having a resonant loop antenna" was invented by Robert Bollinger Jr. (Fogelsville, Pa.) and Dragan Veskovic (Allentown, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controllable electrical outlet may comprise a resonant loop antenna. The resonant loop antenna may comprise a feed loop electrically coupled to a radio-frequency (RF) communication circuit and a main loop magnetically coupled to the feed loop. The controllable electrical outlet may comprise one or more electrical receptacles configured to receive a plug of a plug-in...