US Patent Issued to Microchip Technology on April 7 for "Apparatus to communicate upstream information to a host via a light-emitting diode (LED) controller" (Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,681, issued on April 7, was assigned to Microchip Technology Inc. (Chandler, Ariz.).

"Apparatus to communicate upstream information to a host via a light-emitting diode (LED) controller" was invented by Marta Pastor (Madrid) and Ivan Gonzalez (Las Rozas de Madrid, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus is provided that includes a controlled voltage source and processing circuitry. The controlled voltage source connects to one or more light-emitting diode (LED) leads of a light-emitting diode (LED) controller that is in communication with a host. The processing circuitry selects a particular one of a plurality of predetermi...