ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,123, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).

"System for individually controlling light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and controlling clusters of LEDs as units" was invented by Gernot Unterweger (Latschach, Austria) and Adolfo De Cicco (Castel d'Azzano, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a light-emitting diode (LED) circuit comprising a set of LEDs arranged in a formation, wherein the set of LEDs comprise a set of LED clusters; and a controller. The controller is configured to: control, according to a first LED control mode, whether each LED of the set of LEDs is turned on or tur...