US Patent Issued to SIGNIFY HOLDING on Feb. 3 for "Lighting circuit" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,251, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Lighting circuit" was invented by Berend Jan Willem Ter Weeme (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Bertrand Johan Edward Hontele (Breda, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lighting circuit has a series connection of a plurality of lighting channels of different output colors, driven by a current source. Some or all of the lighting channels comprise a LED arrangement, a shunt switch in parallel with the LED arrangement and a current leakage path in parallel with the LED arrangement. The current leakage path is used to calibrate the current flowing ...