US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC on Sept. 8 for "Lighting control circuit, passenger detection device, lighting control method, and passenger detection method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,733,073, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Lighting control circuit, passenger detection device, lighting control method, and passenger detection method" was invented by Nobuaki Mawake (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lighting control circuit includes: a light emitting element connected between a first terminal and a second terminal; a converter that converts a direct current input voltage into a first direct current output voltage or a second direct current output voltage, in which when a monitor determines that the direct current input voltage is higher than a predetermined threshold, a first...