ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,128, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Lutron Technology Co. LLC (Coopersburg, Pa.).

"Load control device for controlling a driver for a lighting load" was invented by James P. Steiner (Royersford, Pa.), Daniel G. Cooper (Coopersburg, Pa.) and Ryan S. Bedell (West Palm Beach, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A load control device is configured to generate a control signal having a desired magnitude for controlling a load regulation device adapted to control the power delivered to an electrical load. The load control device may comprise a control terminal arranged to provide the control signal to the load regulation device, a comm...