US Patent Issued to NUVOTON TECHNOLOGY on June 24 for "Light strip unplug detection circuit, light strip driving system, and light strip unplugging protection method" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,436, issued on June 24, was assigned to NUVOTON TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Light strip unplug detection circuit, light strip driving system, and light strip unplugging protection method" was invented by Lian-Cheng Tsai (Zhubei, Taiwan) and Chun-Yi Wu (Zhubei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light strip unplugging protection method includes: providing a light strip, wherein the light strip includes a plug including a power pin and a control pin; providing a socket corresponding to the plug, wherein the socket includes a power pin holder and at least one light strip control pin holder for electrically connecting with ...