US Patent Issued to Japan Tobacco on May 13 for "Methods and apparatus for a power supply control circuit" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,459, issued on May 13, was assigned to Japan Tobacco Inc (Tokyo).

"Methods and apparatus for a power supply control circuit" was invented by Hideo Kondo (Oizumi-Machi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments of the present technology comprise a method and apparatus for a power supply control circuit. In various embodiments, the apparatus is adapted to control the power supplied by a battery to a heating element. The apparatus may comprise a memory for storing known data and circuitry configured to control the delivery of power from the battery to the heating element according to measured parameters, calculated parame...