ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,620, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Laser diode lighting circuit" was invented by Matthias Wendt (Wurselen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lighting circuit comprises a current driver circuit and a series connection of at least two laser diodes, supplied with current from the current driver circuit. A current shunt circuit is in parallel with each laser diode for diverting a shunt current away from the respective laser diode. The level of the shunt currents is controlled during a start-up period of time of the current driver circuit in order to control the rate of change of...