ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,079, issued on May 6, was assigned to SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"LED driving circuit and LED lighting circuit" was invented by Jie Fu (Shanghai), Shiguang Sun (Shanghai), Zhiquan Chen (Shanghai), Feng Ju (Shanghai), Yu Wang (Shanghai) and Gang Wang (Shanghai, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide a safer over voltage protection, it is provided a driving circuit for a light emitting source, comprising an input adapted to receive a power supply; a conversion circuit, adapted to convert the power supply and provide a converted power, comprising a power switch (M2); an output, adapted to output the co...