ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,192, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"LED control unit, lighting device having the same, and operating method thereof" was invented by Bongjin Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea) and June Jang (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light-emitting diode (LED) control unit includes: a pulse generator configured to generate a pulse signal; a T-filter configured to convert the pulse signal into a triangular wave signal; a first gate driver configured to receive the triangular wave signal and output a first gate control signal; a second gate driver configured to receive the...