ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,073, issued on June 17, was assigned to Xiamen PVTECH Co. Ltd. (Fujian, China).

"Lighting device protection circuit having high voltage endurance ability" was invented by Fuxing Lu (Fujian, China) and Bohao Zhang (Fujian, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lighting device protection circuit includes an input module, a rectifying module, a driving module and a varistor. The input module includes a positive electrode input end and a negative electrode input end. The rectifying module has a first end, a second end, a third end and a fourth end; the first end, the second end and the third end are connected to the positive electrode i...