Patents Assigned to ABL IP Holdings LLC
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Patent number: 11966213Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 3, 2020Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: ABL IP Holding LLCInventors: Peng Xiao, Alex Oksengendler, Shashank Nalla, Naveen Tumula
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Patent number: 11946636Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 8, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: ABL IP Holding LLCInventors: Yinan Wu, Melissa Ricketts
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Patent number: 11940121Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 30, 2022Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: ABL IP Holding LLCInventors: Dominic Matthew Large, Ryan Matthew Walker, Carl T. Gould, Zachary Adam Ingalls, Christopher Jay Sorensen, Dirk Zylstra, Alexis Rondeau, Joshua Jeremy Miller
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Patent number: 11896728Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 6, 2021Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: ABL IP HOLDING LLCInventors: Forrest Starnes McCanless, Charles Richard Shoop, Jr., Yan Rodriguez
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Patent number: 11899202Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 3, 2023Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: ABL IP Holding LLCInventors: Qi Ai, Jie Chen, Craig Eugene Marquardt
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Patent number: 11883546Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 28, 2020Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: ABL IP HOLDING LLCInventors: David P. Ramer, Jack C. Rains, Jr., Yan Rodriguez, Ron Carl Schimmelpfenning, Jeannine Fisher Wang
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Patent number: 11873980Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 17, 2021Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: ABL IP Holding LLCInventors: Richard Lee Westrick, Jr., Mark Norton
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Patent number: 11852333Abstract: A light fixture having a front and opposing lateral sides, the light fixture includes at least one light source configured to emit a plurality of light rays towards the front and opposing lateral sides, each light ray is emitted at a first angle relative to an optical axis of the at least one light source, and at least one panel extending adjacent to the at least one light source and configured to refract the light rays emitted towards the opposing lateral sides such that light rays exit the at least one panel at a second angle relative to the optical axis that is less than the first angle.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2022Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: ABL IP Holding LLCInventors: John Bryan Harvey, Vincent Adams, Phillip Ryan Wagner
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Patent number: 11855428Abstract: A wall plate system for an electrical device, including but not limited to indoor wall switches, includes a wall plate and a shield. The wall plate defines an aperture, and the wall plate is configured to receive a portion of an electrical device in the aperture. The shield extends at least partially through the aperture, and the shield is configured to form a seal between the wall plate and the electrical device.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2021Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: ABL IP Holding LLCInventors: John R. Johnson, Steven E. Downs, Dennis M. Hoskins, Richard L. Westrick, Jr., Kaitlyn K. Mulcahy, Wesley D. McIntire
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Patent number: 11850319Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 27, 2021Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: ABL IP HOLDING LLCInventors: Forrest Starnes McCanless, Charles Richard Shoop, Jr., Yan Rodriguez
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Patent number: 11844166Abstract: A lighting relay panel may include lower-cost features or components related to improved safety and reliability. In some cases, the relay panel includes a power supply capable of protecting the panel from high-voltage and high-current transients. A microcontroller may determine a power interruption based on a zero-cross signal received from the power supply, and may also configure latching relays during the interruption. In some implementations, the relay panel includes a relay sense circuit that is capable of receiving actuation signals from multiple relays connected to different phases of a power signal, and the microcontroller may synchronize or repeat the actuations based on a signal from the relay sense circuit. The microcontroller may generate relay addresses based on the relay positions within the relay panel. In some cases, the relay panel may include isolation circuits that are capable of providing an isolated control signal having an improved voltage range.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2022Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: ABL IP HOLDING LLCInventors: Dalibor Zulim, Richard Lee Westrick, Jr., Ryan Zaveruha, Frank Pelliccio
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Patent number: 11837896Abstract: A wall-mounted wireless battery charger for a wireless remote lighting controller includes: a wall plate configured to removably retain the wireless remote lighting controller; and an inductive charging transmitter circuit coupled to the wall plate, the inductive charging transmitter circuit being configured to wirelessly interface with an inductive charging receiver circuit of the wireless remote lighting controller when the wireless remote lighting controller is retained by the wall plate. The inductive charging receiver circuit is configured to wirelessly receive power from the inductive charging transmitter circuit and generate a direct current (DC) voltage to charge a battery of the wireless remote lighting controller.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2021Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: ABL IP Holding LLCInventors: Michael A. Crist, Samar Shaker Soliman, John Richard Johnson, Richard Lee Westrick, Jr.
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Patent number: 11821606Abstract: A light fixture may include a light fixture housing defining an internal cavity. A light fixture may also include one or more light engines positioned within the internal cavity of the light fixture housing and designed to emit light for illumination. A light fixture may also include an external power driver positioned within the internal cavity of the light fixture housing and designed to receive power from an external power source, and provide power to and control the one or more light engines. A light fixture may also include a backup power supply positioned within the internal cavity of the light fixture housing, and a backup power driver positioned within the internal cavity of the light fixture housing and designed to receive power from the backup power supply, and provide power to and control the one or more light engines.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2021Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: ABL IP HOLDING LLCInventors: Kerry S. Collins, Douglas D. Grove, Qirong Cao
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Publication number: 20230355827Abstract: An example luminaire includes a white light source (e.g. LEDs emitting white light in a region of the CIE color chart within three Macadam ellipses below the black body curve) and a violet light source emitting light in a wavelength range of approximately 380 nm to 450 nm (e.g. 405 nm LEDs) for deactivating bacteria, such as Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) on a surface exposed to illumination from the luminaire. A controller coupled to the sources pulses the violet light source at an irregular rate and interval over a time period to apply a deactivation dosage of the violet light to bacteria within range of the emissions. When ON, the violet source emits light for deactivating bacteria at an intensity higher than the concurrent intensity of the white light.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2023Publication date: November 9, 2023Applicant: ABL IP HOLDING LLCInventor: Yan RODRIGUEZ
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Patent number: 11812535Abstract: An example control system includes a set of light fixtures connected to a hub, where each light fixture includes a hub-communication device configured to communicate with the hub and a direct communication device configured to communicate directly with other light fixtures. Together, the light fixtures form a mesh network facilitated by the use of their direct communication devices. An external device communicates an instruction to a light fixture, and the instruction is propagated throughout the mesh network through communications among the light fixtures using their respective direct communication devices. As a result, each light fixture to which the instruction applies receives and complies with the instructions. The light fixtures are also configured to receive instructions from the hub, such that a light fixture is configured to receive instructions over dual networks.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2023Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: ABL IP Holding LLCInventor: Yan Rodriguez
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Patent number: D1006312Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2020Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: ABL IP HOLDING LLCInventor: Philip Sieczkowski
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Patent number: D1009348Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2019Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: ABL IP Holding LLCInventors: Kevin D'Anna, Clifford T. Wood, Robert Myler
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Patent number: D1009349Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2020Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: ABL IP HOLDING LLCInventors: Gary Trott, Dominic Large, David Ferrier
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Patent number: D1011603Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2022Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: ABL IP Holding LLCInventors: Jie Chen, Qi Ai, Craig Eugene Marquardt
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Patent number: D1014442Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2022Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: ABL IP HOLDING, LLCInventor: John R. Johnson