US Patent Issued to Altria Client Services on March 17 for "Aerosol-generating system with electrodes and sensors" (Swiss, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,217, issued on March 17, was assigned to Altria Client Services LLC (Richmond, Va.).

"Aerosol-generating system with electrodes and sensors" was invented by Michel Bessant (Carouge, Switzerland), Jacques Robert (Le Mont-sur-Lausanne, Switzerland) and Tony Reevell (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aerosol-generating system includes a liquid storage portion for holding a liquid aerosol-forming substrate; a pair of electrodes arranged adjacent to or in the liquid storage portion; a sensor configured to sense an orientation of the liquid storage portion; and a control system configured to, measure an electrical quantity between ...