Patents by Inventor George Dederich

George Dederich 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: 10701778
    Abstract: A lighting system includes a lighting device that further includes a housing, and light emitting diode (LED) modules positioned in an opening of the housing to emit light away from the housing. Each LED module includes a substrate, a plurality of module-level conductors, and a plurality of LED sets, each of which comprises a first section including a first group of LEDs, one or more additional sections (each including an additional group of LEDs), a first conductive element that electrically connects the first section to a first one of the module-level conductors, and one or more additional conductive elements. The lighting system also includes a sensor and a control circuitry configured to generate commands to control drive currents delivered to the first group of LEDs in each LED set and each additional group of LEDs in each LED set based on the data collected by the sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V.
    Inventors: Christopher D. Nolan, Joseph R. Casper, Benjamin David Vollmer, George Dederich
  • Publication number: 20200045787
    Abstract: A lighting system includes a lighting device that further includes a housing, and light emitting diode (LED) modules positioned in an opening of the housing to emit light away from the housing. Each LED module includes a substrate, a plurality of module-level conductors, and a plurality of LED sets, each of which comprises a first section including a first group of LEDs, one or more additional sections (each including an additional group of LEDs), a first conductive element that electrically connects the first section to a first one of the module-level conductors, and one or more additional conductive elements. The lighting system also includes a sensor and a control circuitry configured to generate commands to control drive currents delivered to the first group of LEDs in each LED set and each additional group of LEDs in each LED set based on the data collected by the sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2019
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Inventors: Christopher D. Nolan, Joseph R. Casper, Benjamin David Vollmer, George Dederich
  • Patent number: 10470270
    Abstract: A lighting system includes a lighting device that further includes a housing, and light emitting diode (LED) modules positioned in an opening of the housing to emit light away from the housing. Each LED module includes a substrate, a plurality of module-level conductors, and a plurality of LED sets, each of which comprises a first section including a first group of LEDs, one or more additional sections (each including an additional group of LEDs), a first conductive element that electrically connects the first section to a first one of the module-level conductors, and one or more additional conductive elements. The lighting system also includes control circuitry configured to generate commands to control drive currents delivered to a first group of LEDs in each LED set and each additional group of LEDs in each LED set so that the lighting device emits light of a specified color temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Eaton Intelligent Power Limited
    Inventors: Christopher D. Nolan, Joseph R. Casper, Benjamin David Vollmer, George Dederich
  • Publication number: 20190090320
    Abstract: A lighting system includes a lighting device that further includes a housing, and light emitting diode (LED) modules positioned in an opening of the housing to emit light away from the housing. Each LED module includes a substrate, a plurality of module-level conductors, and a plurality of LED sets, each of which comprises a first section including a first group of LEDs, one or more additional sections (each including an additional group of LEDs), a first conductive element that electrically connects the first section to a first one of the module-level conductors, and one or more additional conductive elements. The lighting system also includes control circuitry configured to generate commands to control drive currents delivered to a first group of LEDs in each LED set and each additional group of LEDs in each LED set so that the lighting device emits light of a specified color temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2018
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Inventors: Christopher D. Nolan, Joseph R. Casper, Benjamin David Vollmer, George Dederich
  • Patent number: 10201057
    Abstract: A lighting device includes one or more LED modules, each of which includes a group of LED sets positioned on a substrate. Each LED set includes two or more sections, optionally under a single lens. The sections are individually controlled by a controller of the lighting device or an external controller. The beam spread, beam shape, or both of the light emitted by the device may be controlled by selectively activating the sections of each LED set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: Cooper Lighting, LLC
    Inventors: Christopher D. Nolan, Joseph R. Casper, Benjamin David Vollmer, George Dederich
  • Patent number: 10154560
    Abstract: A lighting device includes one or more LED modules, each of which includes a group of LED sets positioned on a substrate. Each LED set includes two or more sections, optionally under a single lens. Each section is configured to emit light of different luminescent properties, such as different colors or different color temperatures. The color, color temperature or other characteristics of light emitted by the device is controlled by selectively activating the sections of each LED set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: Cooper Lighting, LLC
    Inventors: Christopher D. Nolan, Joseph R. Casper, Benjamin David Vollmer, George Dederich
  • Publication number: 20180038581
    Abstract: A lighting device includes one or more LED modules, each of which includes a group of LED sets positioned on a substrate. Each LED set includes two or more sections, optionally under a single lens. The sections are individually controlled by a controller of the lighting device or an external controller. The beam spread, beam shape, or both of the light emitted by the device may be controlled by selectively activating the sections of each LED set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2017
    Publication date: February 8, 2018
    Inventors: Christopher D. Nolan, Joseph R. Casper, Benjamin David Vollmer, George Dederich
  • Publication number: 20180042076
    Abstract: A lighting device includes one or more LED modules, each of which includes a group of LED sets positioned on a substrate. Each LED set includes two or more sections, optionally under a single lens. Each section is configured to emit light of different luminescent properties, such as different colors or different color temperatures. The color, color temperature or other characteristics of light emitted by the device may be controlled by selectively activating the sections of each LED set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2017
    Publication date: February 8, 2018
    Inventors: Christopher D. Nolan, Joseph R. Casper, Benjamin David Vollmer, George Dederich
  • Patent number: 9730302
    Abstract: A lighting control system includes a control card for an illumination device. The control card receives an input signal from a controller electronic device, identifies a type of the illumination device, and uses the identified type to identify an output signal protocol corresponding to the illumination device. If the input signal uses a protocol that differs from that of the output signal protocol, the control card will convert the input signal to the output signal protocol. The controller device may be programmed to enable a user to display and/or control various parameters of various lighting devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: Ephesus Lighting, Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin David Vollmer, George Dederich, Christopher D. Nolan, Joseph R. Casper, Joseph J. Witkowski