US Patent Issued to Japan Tobacco on Oct. 20 for "Power supply unit for aerosol generation device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,765,609, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Japan Tobacco Inc (Tokyo).

"Power supply unit for aerosol generation device" was invented by Tatsunari Aoyama (Tokyo), Hiroshi Kawanago (Tokyo), Toru Nagahama (Tokyo), Takashi Fujiki (Tokyo) and Ryo Yoshida (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power supply unit for an aerosol generation device including a plurality of boards including a first board. The power supply unit also includes a control unit configured to control supply of power to a heater configured to heat an aerosol source using the power supplied from a power supply, a resistor arranged in a path to which a current output from t...