US Patent Issued to Philip Morris Products on July 28 for "Method for device diagnostics" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,927, issued on July 28, was assigned to Philip Morris Products S.A. (Neuchatel, Switzerland).

"Method for device diagnostics" was invented by Eric Mariacher (Jougne, France) and Maxime Chateau (Montlebon, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is provided, including: an aerosol-generating device and/or a charging device associated with an aerosol-generating device; a near-field communication module including a nonvolatile memory; and a controller configured to receive an indication of an error occurrence and to update an error data log stored in the nonvolatile memory by storing an error data entry associated with the error o...