US Patent Issued to ALTRIA CLIENT SERVICES on June 24 for "Hot wire anemometer air flow measurement, puff detection and ambient temperature tracking" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,571, issued on June 24, 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 (Richmond, Va.), Raymond W. Lau (Richmond, Va.), Eric Hawes (Glen Allen, 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 nicotine e-vaping device includes controlling, by a first PID controller, a level of power applied by the ni...