US Patent Issued to Lumentum Operations on March 3 for "Driver circuit for an addressable array of optical emitters" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,720, issued on March 3, was assigned to Lumentum Operations LLC (San Jose, Calif.).

"Driver circuit for an addressable array of optical emitters" was invented by Mikhail Dolganov (San Jose, Calif.) and Lijun Zhu (Dublin, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a controller may cause a first switch of a driver circuit to transition from an open state to a closed state to charge an inductive element of the driver circuit. The controller may cause the first switch to transition from the closed state to the open state to discharge the inductive element. The controller may cause a second switch of the driver circuit...