US Patent Issued to NICHIA on March 17 for "Light source and driving method of light source" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,582, issued on March 17, was assigned to NICHIA Corp. (Anan, Japan).

"Light source and driving method of light source" was invented by Hajime Akimoto (Anan, Japan), Naoto Fujiwara (Tokushima, Japan), Takeshi Morikawa (Tokushima, Japan) and Akira Hori (Tokushima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light source including a light-emitting device including a substrate, and a first light-emitting element and a second light-emitting element that are located on the substrate. The light source further includes a drive circuit to supply a current to drive the light-emitting device, a switch configured to switch between a first state of s...