ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,936, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Japan Tobacco Inc (Tokyo).

"Inhaler device, display device, display method, and program" was invented by Ryo Yoshida (Tokyo), Tatsunari Aoyama (Tokyo), Hiroshi Kawanago (Tokyo), Toru Nagahama (Tokyo) and Takashi Fujiki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display device includes a plurality of displays, and a controller. The displays are configured to, when an apparatus is performing an operation, display a state of the apparatus. The controller is configured to, in response to an error occurring in the apparatus, display an indication of occurrence of the error on the displays in a manner tha...