US Patent Issued to ERP POWER on July 7 for "Light driver with adaptive TRIAC dimming" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,677,358, issued on July 7, was assigned to ERP POWER LLC (Westlake Village, Calif.).

"Light driver with adaptive TRIAC dimming" was invented by Michael Archer (Moorpark, Calif.), James H. Mohan (Valencia, Calif.), Erik Morales (Los Angeles), Steven C. Krattiger (Northridge, Calif.) and Louis Chen (Simi Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of driving a light source by a light driver includes determining a dimming value based on an input from a phase-cut dimmer at the input of the light driver, determining an offset for a dimmer transfer function of the light driver based on the dimming value and a minimum set point of the...