US Patent Issued to Tridonic on March 31 for "Topology-independent switching regulator circuit, switch mode driver, and luminaire" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,383, issued on March 31, was assigned to Tridonic GmbH & Co KG (Dornbirn, Austria).

"Topology-independent switching regulator circuit, switch mode driver, and luminaire" was invented by Lukas Saccavini (Dornbirn, Austria), Hans Auer (Dornbirn, Austria), Fabio Romano (Altach, Austria), Stefan Stark (Muntlix, Austria) and Clemens Kucera (Bludenz, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an integrated circuit, IC (1), for switching regulation of switch mode drivers (2) of various driver topologies is provided. The IC (1) comprises a state machine (11) including a finite plurality of states (Sx). A quantity of the plurality o...