US Patent Issued to Japan Tobacco on May 26 for "Aerosol generating apparatus and method and program for actuating the same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,635,737, issued on May 26, was assigned to Japan Tobacco Inc (Tokyo).

"Aerosol generating apparatus and method and program for actuating the same" was invented by Manabu Yamada (Tokyo), Takeshi Akao (Tokyo), Kazuma Mizuguchi (Tokyo), Masayuki Tsuji (Tokyo) and Hajime Fujita (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aerosol generating apparatus includes a load that generates heat upon receipt of electric power from a power supply and atomizes an aerosol source, an element that is used to acquire a value related to a temperature of the load, a fibrous or porous material that retains the aerosol source supplied from a container to allow the r...