ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,505, issued on Aug. 12.
"Light turn-off fade time control" was invented by Raymond George Janik (Fayetteville, Ga.), Melisa Altamirano-Ruelas (Denver) and Russell Scott Trask (Sharpsburg, Ga.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light fade controller includes an input power detection circuit configured to detect whether an input power is available. The light fade controller further includes a power discharge circuit configured to enable a power discharge path to discharge output power from a driver circuit through the power discharge path in response to the input power detection circuit detecting that the input power is unavailable. The ...