US Patent Issued to ALTRIA CLIENT SERVICES on Jan. 13 for "Heat-not-burn (HNB) aerosol-generating devices including energy based heater control, and methods of controlling a heater" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,520,880, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to ALTRIA CLIENT SERVICES LLC (Richmond, Va.).

"Heat-not-burn (HNB) aerosol-generating devices including energy based heater control, and methods of controlling a heater" was invented by Zack W. Blackmon (Williamsburg, Va.), Eric Hawes (Midlothian, Va.), Rangaraj S. Sundar (Midlothian, Va.), Raymond W. Lau (Richmond, Va.), Jarrett Keen (Richmond, Va.) and Niall Gallagher (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "At least one example embodiment provides a system for controlling a heater in a non-combustible aerosol-generating device, the system comprising a memory storing computer-re...