Patents by Inventor Christopher M. Green

Christopher M. Green 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).

  • Publication number: 20230073441
    Abstract: 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 printed circuit boards may include a plurality of emitter modules mounted thereto. Each of the plurality of emitter printed circuit boards may include a control circuit configured to control the plurality of emitter modules mounted to the respective emitter printed circuit board based on receipt of one or more messages. The lighting device may include a total internal reflection lens for each of the plurality of emitter printed circuit boards. The total internal reflection lens may be configured to diffuse light emitted by the emitter modules of the plurality of emitter printed circuit boards.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2022
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Applicant: Lutron Technology Company LLC
    Inventors: Ryan M. Bocock, Richard S. Burberry, Christopher M. Green, Jivan J. Luu, Ananthanag Nemmani, Jaykrishna A. Shukla
  • Patent number: 11570874
    Abstract: A linear lighting device may include an elongated housing that defines a cavity. The linear lighting device may include plurality of emitter printed circuit boards configured to be received within the cavity. Each of the plurality of emitter printed circuit boards may include a plurality of emitter modules mounted thereto. Each of the plurality of emitter printed circuit boards may include a control circuit configured to control the plurality of emitter modules mounted to the respective emitter printed circuit board based on receipt of one or more messages. The linear lighting device may include a total internal reflection lens for each of the plurality of emitter printed circuit boards. The total internal reflection lens may be configured to diffuse light emitted by the emitter modules of the plurality of emitter printed circuit boards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Lutron Technology Company LLC
    Inventors: Ryan M. Bocock, Fangxu Dong, Ari L. Fox, Christopher M. Green, Peter W. Ogden, Jr., Stephen Phillips, Jonathan R. Redus, Jaykrishna A. Shukla
  • Publication number: 20230007744
    Abstract: In an auto vibrancy mode, a vibrancy value for a lighting load may be automatically determined based on a selected color setting for the lighting load. The automatically determined vibrancy value may also be configured to emit light from the lighting load at or above a target CRI value for the selected color setting. The selected color setting may be a CCT value on the black-body curve or an x-y chromaticity value. If the selected color setting is CCT value on the black-body curve, the automatically determined vibrancy value may be a pre-defined vibrancy value that is configured to emit light from the lighting load at or above the target CRI value for the selected CCT value. If the selected color setting is an x-y chromaticity value, the automatically determined vibrancy value may be based on the distance between the selected x-y chromaticity value and the black-body curve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Applicant: Lutron Technology Company LLC
    Inventors: Prashant Chaturvedi, Bryan R. Barnes, Christopher M. Green
  • Publication number: 20220369438
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for communicating via a communications network with a load control system of a respective user environment, receiving information on the load control system via the communications network, displaying graphical user interfaces based on the received information, and controlling and configuring the load control system via graphical user interfaces by communicating via the communications network messages the load control system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2022
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Applicant: Lutron Technology Company LLC
    Inventors: Rhythm Agarwal, Brad M. Kreschollek, Bryan R. Barnes, Christopher M. Green, Rhodes B. Baker, Jennifer Wong, Gregory S. Altonen, Karelys Alfonzo
  • Patent number: 11438980
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for communicating via a communications network with a load control system of a respective user environment, receiving information on the load control system via the communications network, displaying graphical user interfaces based on the received information, and controlling and configuring the load control system via graphical user interfaces by communicating via the communications network messages the load control system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Lutron Technology Company LLC
    Inventors: Rhythm Agarwal, Brad M. Kreschollek, Bryan R. Barnes, Christopher M. Green, Rhodes B. Baker, Jennifer Wong, Gregory S. Altonen, Karelys Alfonzo
  • Publication number: 20220279633
    Abstract: In an auto vibrancy mode, a vibrancy value for a lighting load may be automatically determined based on a selected color setting for the lighting load. The automatically determined vibrancy value may also be configured to emit light from the lighting load at or above a target CRI value for the selected color setting. The selected color setting may be a CCT value on the black-body curve or an x-y chromaticity value. If the selected color setting is CCT value on the black-body curve, the automatically determined vibrancy value may be a pre-defined vibrancy value that is configured to emit light from the lighting load at or above the target CRI value for the selected CCT value. If the selected color setting is an x-y chromaticity value, the automatically determined vibrancy value may be based on the distance between the selected x-y chromaticity value and the black-body curve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2022
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Applicant: Lutron Technology Company LLC
    Inventors: Prashant Chaturvedi, Bryan R. Barnes, Christopher M. Green
  • Patent number: 11375591
    Abstract: In an auto vibrancy mode, a vibrancy value for a lighting load may be automatically determined based on a selected color setting for the lighting load. The automatically determined vibrancy value may also be configured to emit light from the lighting load at or above a target CRI value for the selected color setting. The selected color setting may be a CCT value on the black-body curve or an x-y chromaticity value. If the selected color setting is CCT value on the black-body curve, the automatically determined vibrancy value may be a pre-defined vibrancy value that is configured to emit light from the lighting load at or above the target CRI value for the selected CCT value. If the selected color setting is an x-y chromaticity value, the automatically determined vibrancy value may be based on the distance between the selected x-y chromaticity value and the black-body curve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Lutron Technology Company, LLC
    Inventors: Prashant Chaturvedi, Bryan R. Barnes, Christopher M. Green
  • Publication number: 20220039243
    Abstract: A linear lighting device may include an elongated housing that defines a cavity. The linear lighting device may include plurality of emitter printed circuit boards configured to be received within the cavity. Each of the plurality of emitter printed circuit boards may include a plurality of emitter modules mounted thereto. Each of the plurality of emitter printed circuit boards may include a control circuit configured to control the plurality of emitter modules mounted to the respective emitter printed circuit board based on receipt of one or more messages. The linear lighting device may include a total internal reflection lens for each of the plurality of emitter printed circuit boards. The total internal reflection lens may be configured to diffuse light emitted by the emitter modules of the plurality of emitter printed circuit boards.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Applicant: Lutron Technology Company LLC
    Inventors: Ryan M. Bocock, Fangxu Dong, Ari L. Fox, Christopher M. Green, Peter W. Ogden, JR., Stephen Phillips, Jonathan R. Redus, Jaykrishna A. Shukla
  • Patent number: 11166572
    Abstract: A system for displaying a product is disclosed. The system includes a wall having a recess therein and a display structure that defines the recess. The display structure extends through a front surface of the wall and includes a frame having a top panel, a bottom panel, and two side panels. The top and bottom panels are longer than the side panels. The system further includes a plurality of modular display units disposed within the display structure. Each modular display unit extends from the bottom panel to the top panel. At least a first one of the modular display units includes a frame open to a front exterior of the display structure and at least a second one of the modular display units is not open to the front exterior of the display structure. The system further includes a plurality of display elements disposed within the plurality of display units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Vasco Agnoli, James Andrus, Sam Brown, James Casey Feeney, Christopher M. Green, Kully Kraig Mandon, Christopher Daniel Peak, Jonathan P. Siegel, Stefan Behling, Kevin Fenton Smeds, Andrew Charles Deffenbaugh, Gregory James Ranes, Charles A. Schwalbach, Sheng Yang, Graham O'Brien
  • Publication number: 20210307139
    Abstract: The lighting device may be configured to perform black body curve fading. For example, the control circuit may be configured to control the drive circuit such that the light emitted by the lighting load is adjusted (e.g., faded) along a black body curve. The control circuit may be configured to determine whether to fade from an initial color to a destination color in a Correlated Color Temperature (CCT) chromaticity space or an XY chromaticity space. The control circuit may be configured to determine whether the initial color and/or the destination color are on the black body curve. When the initial color and the destination color are determined to be on the black body curve, the control circuit may be configured to control the drive circuit such that the light emitted by the lighting device is adjusted from the initial color to the destination color along the black body curve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Applicant: Lutron Technology Company LLC
    Inventors: Christopher M. Green, Jaykrishna A. Shukla, Robert C. Newman, JR., Peter MacLellan, Matthew R. Blakeley
  • Publication number: 20210112640
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for communicating via a communications network with a load control system of a respective user environment, receiving information on the load control system via the communications network, displaying graphical user interfaces based on the received information, and controlling and configuring the load control system via graphical user interfaces by communicating via the communications network messages the load control system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Applicant: Lutron Technology Company LLC
    Inventors: Rhythm Agarwal, Brad M. Kreschollek, Bryan R. Barnes, Christopher M. Green, Rhodes B. Baker, Jennifer Wong, Gregory S. Altonen, Karelys Alfonzo
  • Patent number: D912274
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan P. Siegel, Christopher M. Green, James Andrus, David del Villar Fernandez, David Nelson, Stefan Behling, David Summerfield, James McGrath, Ed Wright, Bo Yoon, Ton Men Banh
  • Patent number: D913728
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Kully Kraig Mandon, Christopher M. Green, Jonathan P. Siegel, Jody Akana, Bartley K. Andre, Shota Aoyagi, Anthony Michael Ashcroft, Jeremy Bataillou, Daniel J. Coster, Daniele De Iuliis, M. Evans Hankey, Julian Hoenig, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Duncan Robert Kerr, Matthew Dean Rohrbach, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Mikael Silvanto, Christopher J. Stringer, Eugene Antony Whang, Rico Zörkendörfer
  • Patent number: D926505
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jody Akana, Bartley K. Andre, Shota Aoyagi, Anthony Michael Ashcroft, Jeremy Bataillou, Daniel J. Coster, Daniele De Iuliis, Christopher M. Green, M. Evans Hankey, Julian Hoenig, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Duncan Robert Kerr, Kully Kraig Mandon, Matthew Dean Rohrbach, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Jonathan P. Siegel, Mikael Silvanto, Christopher J. Stringer, Eugene Antony Whang, Rico Zörkendörfer
  • Patent number: D927729
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Daniel Peak, Jonathan P. Siegel, Christopher M. Green, David Nelson, Stefan Behling, David Summerfield, James McGrath, Peter Han, Adrian Parkinson
  • Patent number: D947063
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan P. Siegel, Christopher M. Green, Stefan Behling, David Summerfield, James McGrath, Christopher Daniel Peak, Patrick O'Brien, Jennifer Ross Wynn, Andrea Fender Badgley, Richard P. Howarth, Rafe Bertram, John De Maio, Susana Varela De Sagarra, Raoul Skrein Bumballa, Neil Bancroft, Charlotte Hofstetter, Afroditi Kavallieraki
  • Patent number: D950103
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Daniel Peak, Jonathan P. Siegel, Christopher M. Green, David Nelson, Stefan Behling, David Summerfield, James McGrath, Peter Han, Adrian Parkinson
  • Patent number: D954148
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Julien Phillip Stockwell, David Kahl Peschel, Kully Kraig Mandon, Christopher M. Green
  • Patent number: D958407
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Daniel Peak, Jonathan P. Siegel, Christopher M. Green, David Nelson, Stefan Behling, David Summerfield, James McGrath, Peter Han, Adrian Parkinson
  • Patent number: D974471
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Julien Phillip Stockwell, David Kahl Peschel, Kully Kraig Mandon, Christopher M. Green