US Patent Issued to ERP POWER on Aug. 11 for "Light driver capable of deactivating CCT control in the presence of TRIAC dimming" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,541, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to ERP POWER LLC (Westlake Village, Calif.).

"Light driver capable of deactivating CCT control in the presence of TRIAC dimming" was invented by Michael Archer (Moorpark, Calif.), Louis Chen (Simi Valley, Calif.), James H. Mohan (Valencia, Calif.), Steven C. Krattiger (Northridge, Calif.) and Erik Morales (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light driver includes a phase-cut detector configured to determine whether phase-cut dimming is present at an input of the light driver and to generate a phase-cut detection signal in response to presence of the phase-cut dimming; and a channel contro...