Patents by Inventor Brian Eldin Brandt

Brian Eldin Brandt has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11190926
    Abstract: This disclosure describes systems, methods, and apparatus for wireless and non-line-of-sight commissioning of smart devices. Smart devices can broadcast a first radio message that is detected by an ID tool during commissioning. The first radio messages can be unique to each device, such that the ID tool can send a second radio message addressed to a select device, the address based on the first radio message from the select/addressed device. The addressed device can respond to confirm the identity and location of the addressed device. The ID tool can then send a third radio message with a registration request command, again addressed to the selected installed device. In response, the selected installed device can enter a registration request mode and transmit an identification to a commissioning system, whereby that device's identity is now know to the system and can be wirelessly controlled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: LEDVANCE LLC
    Inventor: Brian Eldin Brandt
  • Patent number: 10535482
    Abstract: This disclosure describes systems, methods, and apparatus for determining a relay delay for a relay of a relay device used to switch AC power to and from a load. The relay delay can be pre-determined as a model or polynomial including variables for temperature and age, such that the switching instructions can be sent to the rely a relay delay before a zero crossing of the AC signal that the relay is switching, and where the relay delay accounts for temperature and age of the relay in real time or near real time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: LEDVANCE LLC
    Inventors: Brian Eldin Brandt, Charles Marvonek, Jerome Hittle
  • Publication number: 20180176760
    Abstract: This disclosure describes systems, methods, and apparatus for wireless and non-line-of-sight commissioning of smart devices. Smart devices can broadcast a first radio message that is detected by an ID tool during commissioning. The first radio messages can be unique to each device, such that the ID tool can send a second radio message addressed to a select device, the address based on the first radio message from the select/addressed device. The addressed device can respond to confirm the identity and location of the addressed device. The ID tool can then send a third radio message with a registration request command, again addressed to the selected installed device. In response, the selected installed device can enter a registration request mode and transmit an identification to a commissioning system, whereby that device's identity is now know to the system and can be wirelessly controlled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2018
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Inventor: Brian Eldin Brandt
  • Publication number: 20180158633
    Abstract: This disclosure describes systems, methods, and apparatus for determining a relay delay for a relay of a relay device used to switch AC power to and from a load. The relay delay can be pre-determined as a model or polynomial including variables for temperature and age, such that the switching instructions can be sent to the rely a relay delay before a zero crossing of the AC signal that the relay is switching, and where the relay delay accounts for temperature and age of the relay in real time or near real time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2017
    Publication date: June 7, 2018
    Inventors: Brian Eldin Brandt, Charles Marvonek, Jerome Hittle
  • Patent number: 9655179
    Abstract: This disclosure describes systems, methods, and apparatus for an LED driver circuit capable of responding to dimmer signals from three different types of dimmers: a phase cut dimmer, a dedicated dimmer (e.g., 0-10V dimmer), and a button dimmer. The processor can include inputs for each of these dimmer types, and can be configured to determine which of the three types of dimmers is controlling the LED driver circuit, and determine which dimming signals to respond to when more than one dimmer type is trying to control the LED.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: TerraLUX, Inc.
    Inventor: Brian Eldin Brandt
  • Patent number: 9596738
    Abstract: Various systems and methods facilitate internal communication within a lighting module as well as intercommunication among lighting modules over an external network. The network may be a conventional network managed by a central network controller or may be an ad hoc or “mesh” network—i.e., a scalable network architecture in which any lighting module is a node that can communicate with any other module or network-connected device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: TerraLUX, Inc.
    Inventors: Anthony W. Catalano, John A. Koski, Brett James Pardikes, Brian Eldin Brandt
  • Publication number: 20160330808
    Abstract: This disclosure describes systems, methods, and apparatus for an LED driver circuit capable of responding to dimmer signals from three different types of dimmers: a phase cut dimmer, a dedicated dimmer (e.g., 0-10V dimmer), and a button dimmer. The processor can include inputs for each of these dimmer types, and can be configured to determine which of the three types of dimmers is controlling the LED driver circuit, and determine which dimming signals to respond to when more than one dimmer type is trying to control the LED.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2016
    Publication date: November 10, 2016
    Inventor: Brian Eldin Brandt
  • Publication number: 20140246993
    Abstract: Various systems and methods facilitate internal communication within a lighting module as well as intercommunication among lighting modules over an external network. The network may be a conventional network managed by a central network controller or may be an ad hoc or “mesh” network—i.e., a scalable network architecture in which any lighting module is a node that can communicate with any other module or network-connected device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2014
    Publication date: September 4, 2014
    Inventors: Anthony W. Catalano, John A. Koski, Brett James Pardikes, Brian Eldin Brandt