ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,807, issued on April 29, was assigned to Diodes Inc. (Plano, Texas).

"LED color and brightness control apparatus and method" was invented by Dongjie Cheng (Murphy, Texas), Vijay Hugar (Hubballi, India), Sumit Bhat (Hubballi, India) and Joy Das (Shyamnagar, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a plurality of MOSFET device groups connected in parallel, wherein a first common node of the plurality of MOSFET device groups is coupled to a cathode of a light emitting diode channel of a plurality of light emitting diode channels, and a second common node of the plurality of MOSFET device groups is connected to ground, a...