ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,787,135, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Driver arrangement for powering a load" was invented by Jie Fu (Shanghai), Zhiquan Chen (Shanghai), Yu Wang (Shanghai) and Gang Wang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driver arrangement with overvoltage protection. A control circuit monitors a first output signal responsive to an offset signal which is configured to compensate for an AC mains power ripple in a power factor correction signal or the sum of this offset signal and the power factor correction signal. The power factor correction converter operates in a positive feedback mode usin...