US Patent Issued to Philip Morris Products on June 30 for "Aerosol-generating device and method with puff detection" (Swiss, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,138, issued on June 30, was assigned to Philip Morris Products S.A. (Neuchatel, Switzerland).

"Aerosol-generating device and method with puff detection" was invented by Oleg Mironov (Cudrefin, Switzerland), Enrico Stura (Palezieux-Village, Switzerland), Maxime Ducros (Les Hopitaux-Neufs, France) and Daniela Hau (Cudrefin, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating an aerosol-generating device is provided, the device including a power supply to supply power to generate the aerosol, and a controller, the method including: monitoring a parameter indicative of aerosol generation during operation of the device; and a...