ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,922, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to eSmoking Institute Sp. z o.o. (Poznan, Poland).

"Aerosol provision device" was invented by Adrian Jakobczyk (Poznan, Poland), Lukasz Milewski (Poznan, Poland), Marcin Kozlowski (Poznan, Poland), Marcin Kos (Poznan, Poland), Andrzej Szykowny (Poznan, Poland), Krzysztof Szeinig (Poznan, Poland), Maciej Maciagowski (Poznan, Poland) and Pawel Zielazek (Poznan, Poland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and a method for an aerosol generating device is described, the apparatus including a charging controller. The charging controller is configured to control charging of a battery using a power...