US Patent Issued to ALTRIA CLIENT SERVICES on June 17 for "Hot wire anemometer air flow measurement, puff detection and ambient temperature tracking" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,208, issued on June 17, was assigned to ALTRIA CLIENT SERVICES LLC (Richmond, Va.).

"Hot wire anemometer air flow measurement, puff detection and ambient temperature tracking" was invented by Adam Parrott (Richmond, Va.), Niall Gallagher (Cambridge, Great Britain), Raymond W. Lau (Richmond, Va.), Eric Hawes (Midlothian, Va.), Ryan Newcomb (Richmond, Va.), Terry Bache (Richmond, Va.), Rangaraj S. Sundar (Midlothian, Va.) and Jarrett Keen (Richmond, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of controlling a hot wire anemometer (HWA) of a non-nicotine e-vaping device includes controlling, by a first PID controller, a level of power ap...