ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,377, issued on April 14, was assigned to ERP POWER LLC (Westlake Village, Calif.).
"Light driver with improved dimming profile" was invented by Michael Archer (Moorpark, Calif.), Louis Chen (Simi Valley, Calif.) and James H. Mohan (Valencia, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light driver includes a pulse generator circuit configured to generate a pulsed signal based on a rectified input line voltage, a dimming detection circuit configured to determine whether phase-cut dimming is present at an input of the light driver based on the pulsed signal and to generate a phase-cut detection signal, and an input selection circuit confi...