Patents Assigned to ABL IP Holding LLC
  • Publication number: 20240224395
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a dynamic pulse width modulation (PWM) system that includes current frequency determination circuitry to determine a DC value of a source current, and to determine a frequency of the source current generate a plurality of pulses from an AC power source; and PWM generation circuitry to generate a first PWM signal having a first frequency based on the DC value of the current source; the PWM circuitry also to generate a second PWM signal having a second frequency based on the frequency of the current source; wherein the first frequency is less than the second frequency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2023
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Applicant: ABL IP Holding, LLC
    Inventors: Feng CHEN, Towfiq CHOWDHURY
  • Patent number: 12027912
    Abstract: An emergency luminaire includes an emergency luminaire light source to emit emergency illumination lighting. The emergency luminaire also includes an emergency luminaire power supply configured to be driven by an emergency power line. The emergency luminaire further includes emergency luminaire programming, wherein execution of the emergency luminaire programming configures the emergency luminaire to implement the following functions. The emergency luminaire tracks an active message gap time. In response to receiving a normal power active message from a respective member device of a plurality of member devices of a lighting control group before the tracked active message gap time exceeds an active message timeout, the emergency luminaire resets the active message gap time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: ABL IP HOLDING LLC
    Inventors: Ryan A. Zaveruha, Richard L. Westrick, Jr.
  • Patent number: 12022585
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a dynamic pulse width modulation (PWM) system that includes current frequency determination circuitry to determine a DC value of a source current, and to determine a frequency of the source current generate a plurality of pulses from an AC power source; and PWM generation circuitry to generate a first PWM signal having a first frequency based on the DC value of the current source; the PWM circuitry also to generate a second PWM signal having a second frequency based on the frequency of the current source; wherein the first frequency is less than the second frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: ABL IP HOLDING, LLC
    Inventors: Feng Chen, Towfiq Chowdhury
  • Publication number: 20240200738
    Abstract: A lighting system for a ceiling grid system may provide lighting at a location below the ceiling grid system. The light fixture includes a light source and a support member, and the light fixture may provide diffusely reflected light to a ceiling grid opening. The light fixture may include a wall assembly that is adapted to be moved between a folded configuration and an unfolded configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2024
    Publication date: June 20, 2024
    Applicant: ABL IP Holding LLC
    Inventors: Dominic Matthew Large, Ryan Matthew Walker, Carl T. Gould, Zachary Adam Ingalls, Christopher Jay Sorensen, Dirk Zylstra, Alexis Rondeau, Joshua Jeremy Miller
  • Patent number: 12004277
    Abstract: A constant power backup power supply for LED lighting fixtures is disclosed. The power supply includes a storage battery that is charged while an AC power source is in an ON condition. When AC power transitions to an OFF condition, a capacitor bank charged by the battery supplies current to the primary side of a flyback converter operating in discontinuous conduction mode. The secondary side of the flyback converter supplies constant output power to the LED lighting fixture for an arbitrary output voltage within a predetermined range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: ABL IP HOLDINGS LLC
    Inventor: Jie Wang
  • Patent number: 12000548
    Abstract: A light system may include a luminaire comprising one or more light emitters and at least one optic. The light system may include a remote phosphor mask that is reversibly coupled with the luminaire using at least one reversible coupling mechanism. The remote phosphor mask may include one or more phosphors admixed with an optical material. The one or more phosphors may be capable of adjusting a color temperature of emitted light from the luminaire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: ABL IP Holding LLC
    Inventors: Craig Eugene Marquardt, Qi Ai, Barry Goldman
  • Patent number: 11979961
    Abstract: A lighting system includes a plurality of lighting system elements. The lighting system elements include a luminaire and a reporting device. The luminaire includes a light source to emit illumination light. The reporting device includes a reporting device network communication interface system for network communication, a reporting device processor, a reporting device memory, and reporting device programming in the reporting device memory. Execution of the reporting device programming causes the respective reporting device to collect a respective performance metric of a respective luminaire and submits a respective claim including the respective performance metric to one or more storage devices. A respective storage device validates a plurality of claims, including the respective claim. The storage device stores the subset or all of the plurality of claims in a block in at least one storage device of the one or more storage devices. The block includes a lighting value token.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: ABL IP HOLDING LLC
    Inventors: Ryan A. Zaveruha, Richard L Westrick, Jr., Maurits van der Hoorn
  • Publication number: 20240142093
    Abstract: A lighting fixture may include a housing, an illumination source disposed within the housing, and a frame coupled to the housing. The frame may include a first side and a second side abutting the first side to form a joint, wherein a gap extends at the joint and at least one of the first side or the second side is configured to obscure at least a portion of the gap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: ABL IP HOLDING, LLC
    Inventors: Clifford T. WOOD, Jeff Robert SHANER
  • Patent number: 11966213
    Abstract: The systems and methods disclosed herein include a handheld programmer for replacing LED drivers in the field. The handheld programmer includes a communications module configured to communicate with a first light emitting diode (LED) driver and a second LED driver, and a processor configured to read a plurality of settings from the first LED driver and program the second LED driver with the plurality of settings from the first LED driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: ABL IP Holding LLC
    Inventors: Peng Xiao, Alex Oksengendler, Shashank Nalla, Naveen Tumula
  • Patent number: 11946636
    Abstract: An anti-glare refractor for a luminaire may include an optic body having a light entrance side and a light exit side. The optic body may include a material characterized by an index of refraction. The light entrance side may include a substantially flat surface, and the light exit side may include a plurality of prisms each defined by a plurality of facet surfaces. Each facet surface may have a prism slope angle with respect to the substantially flat surface. The prism slope angle may be in a range from about 5 degrees to about 45 degrees.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: ABL IP Holding LLC
    Inventors: Yinan Wu, Melissa Ricketts
  • Patent number: 11940121
    Abstract: A lighting system for a ceiling grid system may provide lighting at a location below the ceiling grid system. The light fixture includes a light source and a support member, and the light fixture may provide diffusely reflected light to a ceiling grid opening. The light fixture may include a wall assembly that is adapted to be moved between a folded configuration and an unfolded configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: ABL IP Holding LLC
    Inventors: Dominic Matthew Large, Ryan Matthew Walker, Carl T. Gould, Zachary Adam Ingalls, Christopher Jay Sorensen, Dirk Zylstra, Alexis Rondeau, Joshua Jeremy Miller
  • Patent number: 11896728
    Abstract: An ultraviolet (“UV”) emission device may emit energy towards a movable surface of a conveyor system. A housing of the UV emission device may attach to a frame of the conveyor system. A lateral edge of the housing may extend across the moveable surface. The housing and a portion of the moveable surface may be inclined with respect to the frame. A barrier bracket of the UV emission device may support an absorptive barrier along the lateral edge, the absorptive barrier configured to contact the moveable surface. In a first position of the barrier bracket, the absorptive barrier contacts the moveable surface and the barrier bracket activates an interlock switch. In a second position of the barrier bracket, the barrier bracket deactivates the interlock switch. Responsive to deactivation of the interlock switch, a controller may provide a control signal to decrease power to the UV energy emission element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: ABL IP HOLDING LLC
    Inventors: Forrest Starnes McCanless, Charles Richard Shoop, Jr., Yan Rodriguez
  • Patent number: 11899202
    Abstract: An optical assembly and a luminaire with extreme cutoff beam control optics. The optical assembly includes a base, a plurality of lenses, a plurality of light emitting diodes (LED) positioned to emit light into the lenses, and a reflector having a reflective surface disposed adjacent at least one of the plurality of LEDs. The optical axis of one or more of the LEDs may be offset from a central axis of the respective lens in which it emits light. The reflective surface of the reflector may extend from the base over the one or more of the LEDs and beyond the optical axis of the one or more LEDs to direct light in a desired direction or toward a selected area (e.g., a street) and cut off light directed in an undesirable direction or area (e.g., a house).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: ABL IP Holding LLC
    Inventors: Qi Ai, Jie Chen, Craig Eugene Marquardt
  • Patent number: 11883546
    Abstract: A luminaire includes a luminaire control circuit and a disinfection light source to emit a disinfection light in an ultraviolet (UV) band for disinfecting a vicinity of a space of a target pathogen that is exposed to the disinfection light. The UV band is 200 nanometers (nm) to 230 nm wavelength. The luminaire initiates a dose cycle of a vicinity in which the disinfection light source emits the disinfection light continuously or during a plurality of periods of a dose cycle from the disinfection light source by recording a beginning time of the dose cycle. The luminaire controls, via a driver circuit, the disinfection light source over the dose cycle to emit the disinfection light continuously or during the plurality of periods for disinfecting the vicinity to substantially obtain a target pathogen UV radiation level and restrict a total UV radiation threshold exposure level by a UV radiation threshold limit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: ABL IP HOLDING LLC
    Inventors: David P. Ramer, Jack C. Rains, Jr., Yan Rodriguez, Ron Carl Schimmelpfenning, Jeannine Fisher Wang
  • Patent number: 11873980
    Abstract: A photocontrol, such as for an outdoor intelligent lighting fixture, may detect levels of ambient light at multiple sections of the photocontrol. The ambient light may be detected via multiple photosensors located at the photocontrol sections. In addition, the ambient light may be detected via multiple color filters (or sections of a color filter) located at the photocontrol sections. The photocontrol may determine an ambient light differential, such as an instant differential between light received at the multiple photocontrol sections at a particular time, or a temporal differential between light received at the multiple photocontrol sections across multiple times. Based on the ambient light differential, the photocontrol may identify triggering photosensor or triggering section that substantially align with a geographical orientation. The photocontrol may identify a lighting output profile. An output level of a lighting element may be modified based on the lighting output profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: ABL IP Holding LLC
    Inventors: Richard Lee Westrick, Jr., Mark Norton
  • Patent number: 11850319
    Abstract: An ultraviolet (“UV”) emission device may emit energy towards a movable surface of a conveyor system, A housing of the UV emission device may attach to a frame of the conveyor system. A lateral edge of the housing may extend across the moveable surface. The housing and a portion of the moveable surface may be inclined with respect to the frame. A barrier bracket of the UV emission device may support an absorptive barrier along the lateral edge, the absorptive barrier configured to contact the moveable surface. In a first position of the barrier bracket, the absorptive barrier contacts the moveable surface and the barrier bracket activates an interlock switch. In a second position of the barrier bracket, the barrier bracket deactivates the interlock switch. Responsive to deactivation of the interlock switch, a controller may provide a control signal to decrease power to the UV energy emission element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: ABL IP HOLDING LLC
    Inventors: Forrest Starnes McCanless, Charles Richard Shoop, Jr., Yan Rodriguez
  • Patent number: D1009349
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: ABL IP HOLDING LLC
    Inventors: Gary Trott, Dominic Large, David Ferrier
  • Patent number: D1011603
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: ABL IP Holding LLC
    Inventors: Jie Chen, Qi Ai, Craig Eugene Marquardt
  • Patent number: D1014442
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: ABL IP HOLDING, LLC
    Inventor: John R. Johnson
  • Patent number: D1027283
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: ABL IP Holding LLC
    Inventors: Craig Eugene Marquardt, Yinan Wu, Melissa Ricketts