ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,666, issued on July 14, was assigned to Silergy Semiconductor Technology (Hangzhou) LTD. (Hangzhou, China).

"LED driving circuit" was invented by Hongbin Lai (Hangzhou, China) and Shujian Lin (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An LED driving circuit can include: a linear driving circuit coupled in series with an LED load, in order to control a current flowing through the LED load; a first capacitor coupled in parallel with a serial structure having the linear driving circuit and the LED load; and a control circuit configured to decrease a difference between a voltage of the first capacitor and a load voltage of the LED l...