US Patent Issued to Fontem Ventures on Oct. 7 for "Controlling an operation of an electronic cigarette" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,344, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Fontem Ventures B.V. (Amsterdam).

"Controlling an operation of an electronic cigarette" was invented by Ramon Alarcon (Los Gatos, Calif.), Adam Hoffman (Campbell, Calif.) and James R. Conrey (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with one aspect of the present invention there is provided a method for controlling an operation of an electronic cigarette. The method can include determining a total amount of vaporization energy required to vaporize an amount of liquid stored in a reservoir of an electronic cigarette. The method can include determining a total amount of atomize...