US Patent Issued to OMRON on July 29 for "Controlling energy efficiency in LED drive circuits" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,208, issued on July 29, was assigned to OMRON Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Controlling energy efficiency in LED drive circuits" was invented by Matthew Rossi (Renton, Wash.), Jesse Kolstad (Renton, Wash.) and George Zhang (Renton, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application is directed to controlling the illumination efficiency of a light emitting diode (LED) operation system, which includes an LED module and a current source. A power supply is configured to provide a configurable drive voltage. The LED module is coupled to the power supply interface and configured to be driven by the configurable drive voltage. The current sourc...