ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,680, issued on April 7, was assigned to Joulwatt Technology Co. Ltd. (Hangzhou, China).

"Lighting control circuit, lighting control method, and lighting circuit" was invented by Minghao Wu (Hangzhou, China) and Guoqiang Liu (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application discloses a lighting control circuit, a lighting control method, and a lighting circuit. The lighting control circuit includes at least a protocol conversion circuit, and a driving signal generation circuit. The dimming selection circuit stores an input data signal as multi-channel digital signals. The driving signal generation circuit control...