US Patent Issued to SIGNIFY HOLDING on April 15 for "Driver circuit and a method of controlling a driver" (Dutch, Polish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,348, issued on April 15, was assigned to SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Driver circuit and a method of controlling a driver" was invented by Zadok Vitalis Socrates Kroeze (Oss, Netherlands), Adam Kurasz (Pila, Poland) and Tijmen Cornelis Van Bodegraven (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An isolated driver generates a PWM load drive level signal at the primary side and provides this to the secondary side via an optocoupler. Power consumption of the load is also sensed at the primary side. A drive level is sensed at the secondary side and compared at the secondary side with the load drive level to pr...