Patents by Inventor Mark Quilling
Mark Quilling 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).
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Publication number: 20250079096Abstract: An illumination system and method are disclosed for maintaining a consistent change in illumination value among a group of illumination devices whenever a change command is manually sent from a keypad to those illumination devices. The consistent change results from maintaining a common start illumination value among not only the group, but also the keypad which controls the group. From the start illumination value, the keypad can then compute an end illumination value depending upon the amount of time that an increase or decrease in illumination value button is depressed and held. Since the change command can arrive at different illumination devices within the group depending upon where each illumination device is geographically located, a masking time is reserved after the button is released so that enough time is allocated for each of the illumination devices within that group to arrive at a common end illumination value.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2024Publication date: March 6, 2025Applicant: Lutron Technology Company LLCInventors: Mark Quilling, Rebecca Frank, Kenneth Priester
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Patent number: 12176158Abstract: An illumination system and method are disclosed for maintaining a consistent change in illumination value among a group of illumination devices whenever a change command is manually sent from a keypad to those illumination devices. The consistent change results from maintaining a common start illumination value among not only the group, but also the keypad which controls the group. From the start illumination value, the keypad can then compute an end illumination value depending upon the amount of time that an increase or decrease in illumination value button is depressed and held. Since the change command can arrive at different illumination devices within the group depending upon where each illumination device is geographically located, a masking time is reserved after the button is released so that enough time is allocated for each of the illumination devices within that group to arrive at a common end illumination value.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2024Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: Lutron Technology Company LLCInventors: Mark Quilling, Rebecca Frank, Kenneth Priester
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Publication number: 20240153721Abstract: An illumination system and method are disclosed for maintaining a consistent change in illumination value among a group of illumination devices whenever a change command is manually sent from a keypad to those illumination devices. The consistent change results from maintaining a common start illumination value among not only the group, but also the keypad which controls the group. From the start illumination value, the keypad can then compute an end illumination value depending upon the amount of time that an increase or decrease in illumination value button is depressed and held. Since the change command can arrive at different illumination devices within the group depending upon where each illumination device is geographically located, a masking time is reserved after the button is released so that enough time is allocated for each of the illumination devices within that group to arrive at a common end illumination value.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2024Publication date: May 9, 2024Applicant: Lutron Technology Company, LLCInventors: Mark Quilling, Rebecca Frank, Kenneth Priester
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Patent number: 11908638Abstract: An illumination system and method are disclosed for maintaining a consistent change in illumination value among a group of illumination devices whenever a change command is manually sent from a keypad to those illumination devices. The consistent change results from maintaining a common start illumination value among not only the group, but also the keypad which controls the group. From the start illumination value, the keypad can then compute an end illumination value depending upon the amount of time that an increase or decrease in illumination value button is depressed and held. Since the change command can arrive at different illumination devices within the group depending upon where each illumination device is geographically located, a masking time is reserved after the button is released so that enough time is allocated for each of the illumination devices within that group to arrive at a common end illumination value.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2023Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Lutron Technology Company LLCInventors: Mark Quilling, Rebecca Frank, Kenneth Priester
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Publication number: 20230170163Abstract: An illumination system and method are disclosed for maintaining a consistent change in illumination value among a group of illumination devices whenever a change command is manually sent from a keypad to those illumination devices. The consistent change results from maintaining a common start illumination value among not only the group, but also the keypad which controls the group. From the start illumination value, the keypad can then compute an end illumination value depending upon the amount of time that an increase or decrease in illumination value button is depressed and held. Since the change command can arrive at different illumination devices within the group depending upon where each illumination device is geographically located, a masking time is reserved after the button is released so that enough time is allocated for each of the illumination devices within that group to arrive at a common end illumination value.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2023Publication date: June 1, 2023Applicant: Lutron Technology Company, LLCInventors: Mark Quilling, Rebecca Frank, Kenneth Priester
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Patent number: 11569048Abstract: An illumination system and method are disclosed for maintaining a consistent change in illumination value among a group of illumination devices whenever a change command is manually sent from a keypad to those illumination devices. The consistent change results from maintaining a common start illumination value among not only the group, but also the keypad which controls the group. From the start illumination value, the keypad can then compute an end illumination value depending upon the amount of time that an increase or decrease in illumination value button is depressed and held.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2021Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: Lutron Technology Company, LLCInventors: Mark Quilling, Rebecca Frank, Kenneth Priester
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Publication number: 20220115192Abstract: An illumination system and method are disclosed for maintaining a consistent change in illumination value among a group of illumination devices whenever a change command is manually sent from a keypad to those illumination devices. The consistent change results from maintaining a common start illumination value among not only the group, but also the keypad which controls the group. From the start illumination value, the keypad can then compute an end illumination value depending upon the amount of time that an increase or decrease in illumination value button is depressed and held.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2021Publication date: April 14, 2022Applicant: Lutron Technology Company, LLCInventors: Mark Quilling, Rebecca Frank, Kenneth Priester
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Patent number: 11211210Abstract: An illumination system and method is disclosed for maintaining a consistent change in illumination value among a group of illumination devices whenever a change command is manually sent from a keypad to those illumination devices. The consistent change results from maintaining a common start illumination value among not only the group, but also the keypad which controls the group. From the start illumination value, the keypad can then compute an end illumination value depending upon the amount of time that the increase or decrease in illumination value button is depressed and held.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2020Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignee: Lutron Technology Company LLCInventors: Mark Quilling, Rebecca Frank, Kenneth Priester
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Publication number: 20210120655Abstract: An illumination system and method is disclosed for maintaining a consistent change in illumination value among a group of illumination devices whenever a change command is manually sent from a keypad to those illumination devices. The consistent change results from maintaining a common start illumination value among not only the group, but also the keypad which controls the group. From the start illumination value, the keypad can then compute an end illumination value depending upon the amount of time that the increase or decrease in illumination value button is depressed and held.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2020Publication date: April 22, 2021Applicant: Lutron Ketra, LLCInventors: Mark Quilling, Rebecca Frank, Kenneth Priester
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Patent number: 10917958Abstract: An illumination system and method is disclosed for maintaining a consistent change in illumination value among a group of illumination devices whenever a change command is manually sent from a keypad to those illumination devices. The consistent change results from maintaining a common start illumination value among not only the group, but also the keypad which controls the group. From the start illumination value, the keypad can then compute an end illumination value depending upon the amount of time that the increase or decrease in illumination value button is depressed and held.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2020Date of Patent: February 9, 2021Assignee: Lutron Ketra, LLCInventors: Mark Quilling, Rebecca Frank, Kenneth Priester
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Publication number: 20200281065Abstract: An illumination system and method is disclosed for maintaining a consistent change in illumination value among a group of illumination devices whenever a change command is manually sent from a keypad to those illumination devices. The consistent change results from maintaining a common start illumination value among not only the group, but also the keypad which controls the group. From the start illumination value, the keypad can then compute an end illumination value depending upon the amount of time that the increase or decrease in illumination value button is depressed and held.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2020Publication date: September 3, 2020Applicant: Lutron Ketra, LLCInventors: Mark Quilling, Rebecca Frank, Kenneth Priester
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Patent number: 10588207Abstract: An illumination system and method is disclosed for maintaining a consistent change in illumination value among a group of illumination devices whenever a change command is manually sent from a keypad to those illumination devices. The consistent change results from maintaining a common start illumination value among not only the group, but also the keypad which controls the group. From the start illumination value, the keypad can then compute an end illumination value depending upon the amount of time that the increase or decrease in illumination value button is depressed and held.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2019Date of Patent: March 10, 2020Assignee: Lutron Ketra, LLCInventors: Mark Quilling, Rebecca Frank, Kenneth Priester
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Publication number: 20190380192Abstract: An illumination system and method is disclosed for maintaining a consistent change in illumination value among a group of illumination devices whenever a change command is manually sent from a keypad to those illumination devices. The consistent change results from maintaining a common start illumination value among not only the group, but also the keypad which controls the group. From the start illumination value, the keypad can then compute an end illumination value depending upon the amount of time that the increase or decrease in illumination value button is depressed and held.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2019Publication date: December 12, 2019Applicant: Lutron Ketra, LLCInventors: Mark Quilling, Rebecca Frank, Kenneth Priester
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Patent number: 10299356Abstract: An illumination system and method is disclosed for maintaining a consistent change in illumination value among a group of illumination devices whenever a change command is manually sent from a keypad to those illumination devices. The consistent change results from maintaining a common start illumination value among not only the group, but also the keypad which controls the group. From the start illumination value, the keypad can then compute an end illumination value depending upon the amount of time that the increase or decrease in illumination value button is depressed and held.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2018Date of Patent: May 21, 2019Assignee: Lutron Ketra, LLCInventors: Mark Quilling, Rebecca Frank, Kenneth Priester
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Publication number: 20170238398Abstract: A lighting control system and method is disclosed for not only controlling visual content loaded within a group set of illumination devices configured within a wireless network, but also for ensuring minimal control delay to those grouped devices. The lighting control system can include a lighting controller device that controls a plurality of lamps within a mesh network, not only to group those lamps but also to assign content to lamps within that group. The combination of a guaranteed groupcast to each of the group of lamps and an acknowledge back from those lamps that is aggregated over a single path achieves the improved lighting control system disclosed herein.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2017Publication date: August 17, 2017Applicant: Ketra, Inc.Inventors: Horace C. Ho, Mark Quilling, Rebecca Frank, Rebecca M. Ho, Nav Sooch
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Patent number: 9655215Abstract: A lighting control system and method is disclosed for not only controlling visual content loaded within a group set of illumination devices configured within a wireless network, but also for ensuring minimal control delay to those grouped devices. The lighting control system can include a lighting controller device that controls a plurality of lamps within a mesh network, not only to group those lamps but also to assign content to lamps within that group. The combination of a guaranteed groupcast to each of the group of lamps and an acknowledge back from those lamps that is aggregated over a single path achieves the improved lighting control system disclosed herein.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2016Date of Patent: May 16, 2017Assignee: Ketra, Inc.Inventors: Horace C. Ho, Rebecca Frank, Mark Quilling, Rebecca M. Ho, Nav Sooch
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Patent number: RE48882Abstract: A lighting control system and method is disclosed for not only controlling visual content loaded within a group set of illumination devices configured within a wireless network, but also for ensuring minimal control delay to those grouped devices. The lighting control system can include a lighting controller device that controls a plurality of lamps within a mesh network, not only to group those lamps but also to assign content to lamps within that group. The combination of a guaranteed groupcast to each of the group of lamps and an acknowledge back from those lamps that is aggregated over a single path achieves the improved lighting control system disclosed herein.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2019Date of Patent: January 4, 2022Assignee: Lutron Technology Company LLCInventors: Horace C. Ho, Rebecca Frank, Mark Quilling, Rebecca M. Ho, Nav Sooch