ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,675, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Xiamen PVTECH Co. Ltd. (Xiamen, China).

"Lighting device having transient current suppressing function" was invented by Fuxing Lu (Fujian, China) and Zhirong Lin (Fujian, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lighting device includes a rectifying circuit, first filtering capacitor, resistor element, transient current suppressing circuit and voltage divider circuit. The two ends of the first filtering capacitor are connected to a first node and second node respectively. The two ends of the resistor element are connected to the second node and third node respectively. The transient current suppr...