ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,620,645, issued on May 5, was assigned to Tridonic GmbH & Co KG (Dornbirn, Austria).

"Emergency lighting driver and operation method thereof" was invented by Jagjitpati Shukla (Durham, Great Britain) and Deepak Makwana (New Castle Upon Tyne, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An emergency driver (100) of this disclosure for driving emergency lighting means comprises a battery (101) operably coupled to the emergency lighting means, a preferably resistive temperature sensor (104) configured to generate a temperature signal (Ts) corresponding to a temperature of the battery (101), at least a resistive heating element (102) configure...