ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,071, issued on June 17, was assigned to Tridonic GmbH & Co KG (Dornbirn, Austria).

"Driver for lighting means" was invented by Christian Nesensohn (Gotzis, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a driver for lighting means (100) comprising: input terminals (101a, 101b) for an optionally rectified AC voltage; output terminals (104a, 104b) for supplying a LED load (105), a detection circuitry (102) connected to the input terminals (101a, 101b), configured to obtain a signal representing a frequency of the AC voltage and an amplitude of the peak of each cycle of the AC voltage, and a control circuit (103) being...