US Patent Issued to Silanna Asia on Oct. 7 for "Auto flux timing for current resonant laser diode driver" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,338, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Silanna Asia Pte Ltd (Singapore).

"Auto flux timing for current resonant laser diode driver" was invented by Joseph H. Colles (Bonsall, Calif.), Steven E. Rosenbaum (San Diego) and Stuart B. Molin (Carlsbad, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pulsed laser diode driver includes a source capacitor that receives a refresh current at a first terminal and develops a source voltage therefrom. A first terminal of an inductor is connected to the first terminal of the source capacitor. A second terminal of the inductor is connected to an anode of a laser diode and a bypass capacitor. One or more swit...