ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,437, issued on June 24, was assigned to General Lighting Electronic Co. Ltd. (Zhongshan, China).

"Flicker-free thyristor light-adjusting linear constant current circuit" was invented by Meiyi Zhang (Zhongshan, China) and Jiukui Xie (Zhongshan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flicker-free thyristor light-adjusting linear constant current circuit is provided, which includes a rectification and constant current module and an illumination module. The illumination module is internally provided with a ripple elimination module, which includes a ripple suppressor U4, a ripple suppressor U5, a capacitor C1, and a capacitor C2. The rip...