ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,646, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to NICOVENTURES TRADING Ltd. (London).

"Temperature determination" was invented by Walid Abi Aoun (London), Gary Fallon (London), Julian Darryn White (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Martin Daniel Horrod (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are methods and an apparatus for determining a temperature of a susceptor of an aerosol generating device, the susceptor being for inductive heating by a RLC resonance circuit. The apparatus is arranged to determine a frequency characteristic of a peak of a frequency response of the RLC resonance circuit, and determine, based on the ...