US Patent Issued to Japan Tobacco on April 21 for "Non-burning type flavor inhaler and control method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,930, issued on April 21, was assigned to Japan Tobacco Inc (Tokyo).

"Non-burning type flavor inhaler and control method" was invented by Hirofumi Matsumoto (Tokyo), Akihiko Suzuki (Tokyo), Manabu Takeuchi (Tokyo), Takuma Nakano (Tokyo), Masafumi Tarora (Tokyo) and Manabu Yamada (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This non-combusting flavor inhaler is provided with a control unit which, as an instruction to a battery, outputs to the battery a prescribed instruction instructing the battery that the amount of aerosol vaporized by a vaporizer unit should fall within a desired range. The control unit stops power supply from the battery...