ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,072, issued on June 17, was assigned to SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"LED driver and lighting system using the same" was invented by Christian Hattrup (Wurselen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A LED driver having a current sensing resistor arrangement with two parallel current sensing branches, each comprising at least two series resistors connected at a respective sensing node, is provided. The voltages at the two sensing nodes are processed to detect a component failure. The normal current control is based on the voltage across the overall resistor arrangement."
The patent was filed on Oct. 12, 2020, unde...