US Patent Issued to SIGNIFY HOLDING on July 7 for "Robust and intrinsically safe laser failure detection in the electrical circuit" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,456, issued on July 7, was assigned to SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Robust and intrinsically safe laser failure detection in the electrical circuit" was invented by Robert Van Asselt (Valkenswaard, Netherlands), Rifat Ata Mustafa Hikmet (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Dominique Maria Bruls (Heeze, Netherlands), Ties Van Bommel (Horst, Netherlands) and Hugo Johan Cornelissen (Escharen, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides a light generating system (1000) comprising a solid state light source (100), a luminescent material element (210), a sensor element (400), and an electrical circuit (500), wh...