ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,546, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Diodes Inc. (Plano, Texas).

"LED color and brightness control apparatus and method" was invented by Dongjie Cheng (Murphy, Texas), Vijay Hugar (Hubballi, India), Sumit Bhat (Hubballi, India) and Joy Das (Shyamnagar, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a plurality of lighting modules, and a plurality of MOSFET devices connected in parallel and coupled between one of the plurality of lighting modules and ground, wherein the plurality of MOSFET devices comprises a first MOSFET device group configured to provide a bleed current flowing through the one of the plurality of lighting...