ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,709, issued on June 17, was assigned to Artilux Inc. (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Light emission apparatus" was invented by Konstantin P. Petrov (Hsinchu County, Taiwan) and Yun-Chung Na (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light emission system including a first sub-system. The first sub-system includes a storage inductor having a first inductor terminal coupled to a voltage source and a second inductor terminal; a storage capacitor having a first capacitor terminal coupled to the first terminal of the storage inductor, and a second capacitor terminal coupled to a reference voltage node; a switch having a control terminal co...