US Patent Issued to Lutron Technology on Sept. 22 for "Communicating with and controlling load control systems" (Pennsylvania, California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. RE51,043, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Lutron Technology Co. LLC (Coopersburg, Pa.).

"Communicating with and controlling load control systems" was invented by Rhythm Agarwal (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Brad M. Kreschollek (Bethlehem, Pa.), Bryan R. Barnes (Lansdale, Pa.), Christopher M. Green (Austin, Texas), Rhodes B. Baker (Allentown, Pa.), Jennifer Wong (Breinigsville, Pa.), Gregory S. Altonen (Easton, Pa.) and Karelys Alfonzo (Philadelphia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for communicating via a communications network with a load control system of a respective user environment, receiving information on t...