ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,898, issued on May 20, was assigned to SHANGHAI BRIGHT POWER SEMICONDUCTOR Co. LTD. (Shanghai).

"Interface control circuit, control method and interface control device" was invented by Jian Wu (Shanghai), Shunfa Zhang (Shanghai), Zhonghua Sun (Shanghai) and Peng Wang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An interface control circuit, a control method and an interface control device. The interface control circuit is suitable for use in a dimming system compatible with both DALI dimming and push-button dimming. The interface control circuit includes a DALI signal reception control module having a first switch element. The DALI signa...