US Patent Issued to Mate on May 5 for "Configurable LED driver/dimmer for solid state lighting applications" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. RE50,882, issued on May 5, was assigned to Mate LLC (Oklahoma City).

"Configurable LED driver/dimmer for solid state lighting applications" was invented by David Tikkanen (Waterloo, Canada), Jason Neudorf (Kitchener, Canada), Steven Lyons (Kitchener, Canada) and Kyle Hathaway (Kitchener, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure is directed at a method and apparatus for configuring and powering light fixture loads for a LED low voltage distribution system. The method and apparatus include converting power being supplied for powering the set of light fixture loads and then limiting this converted power to a set of multiple current o...