US Patent Issued to Richtek Technology on Dec. 2 for "Dimming circuit and method for use in dimming control" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,351, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Richtek Technology Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Dimming circuit and method for use in dimming control" was invented by Chun-Wen Wang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yi-Hua Chang (Pingtung, Taiwan) and Hsing-Shen Huang (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dimming circuit is configured to generate a dimming signal to control a brightness of a light emitting device. The brightness is correlated with a duty ratio of the dimming signal. The dimming circuit is configured to count a conduction time of the dimming signal according to a programmable period count code and a programmable brightness code, based...