ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,913, issued on May 5, was assigned to Diodes Inc. (Plano, Texas).

"LED current overshoot reduction apparatus and method" was invented by Dongjie Cheng (Murphy, Texas) and Allan Ming-Lun Lin (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a reference current generation circuit coupled between a first voltage bus and a second voltage bus, wherein the reference current generation circuit is configured to generate a predetermined reference current, a first reference current path comprising a first switch, wherein the predetermined reference current is configured to be mirrored to generate a first reference current ...