ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,079, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to On-Bright Electronics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd. (Shanghai).

"Systems and methods for controlling currents flowing through light emitting diodes" was invented by Ke Li (Shanghai) and Liqiang Zhu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and method for controlling one or more light emitting diodes. For example, the system includes: a phase detector configured to process information associated with a rectified voltage generated by a rectifier and related to a TRIAC dimmer, the rectified voltage corresponding to a first waveform during a first half cycle of an AC voltage and corresponding to a seco...