ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,525, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Driver arrangement including power factor correction circuitry" was invented by Zhiquan Chen (Shanghai), Jie Fu (Shanghai), Yu Wang (Shanghai) and Gang Wang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mechanism for controlling a supply voltage for a switched-mode power supply designed for compensating an AC mains power ripple in a PFC output signal produced by a power factor converter. An adjustment circuit is used to synchronize the amplitude of the supply voltage with the amplitude of an offset signal generated by the switched-mode power supply u...