US Patent Issued to Japan Tobacco on Oct. 27 for "Power supply unit for aerosol generation device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,016, issued on Oct. 27, 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, 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 and a charge of the power supply, and a measurement circuit configured to measure a state of the power supply, wherein the measurement circuit inc...