US Patent Issued to Lumileds Singapore on July 14 for "Optical step-up transformer" (California, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,051, issued on July 14, was assigned to Lumileds Singapore Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Optical step-up transformer" was invented by Hisashi Masui (Newark, Calif.), Ronald Johannes Bonne (Plainfield, Ill.) and Oleg Borisovich Shchekin (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A structure and method of operating an optical step-up transformer are described. The optical step-up transformer has at least one photodiode and at least one photoreceiver. The photoreceiver receives light emitted from the photodiode and generates a voltage proportional to the number of series-connected photoreceivers. The photodiode and photoreceiver may be ele...