US Patent Issued to O2Micro on Aug. 12 for "Controller for controlling a light source module" (Canadian, Japanese, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,507, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to O2Micro Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Controller for controlling a light source module" was invented by Naoyuki Fujita (Tokyo), Rong Hu (Beijing) and Yung-Lin Lin (Palo Alto, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller for controlling a light source module including a first LED string and a second LED string includes a power input terminal operable for receiving electric power from a boost converter, a power output terminal operable for providing electric power to the light source module through a buck converter, a first input terminal operable for receiving a first pulse width modulation...