US Patent Issued to IMPERIAL TOBACCO on Dec. 2 for "System for controlling a smoking substitute device" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,635, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to IMPERIAL TOBACCO Ltd. (Bristol, Great Britain).

"System for controlling a smoking substitute device" was invented by Mohammed Benyezzar (Liverpool, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for controlling a smoking substitute device having a heating element. The system comprises a receiver module configured to receive a periodic signal. The periodic signal is in the form of a series of signal events. The system also comprises a sensor configured to determine a temperature of the heating element in response to the receipt of a signal event of the periodic signal by the receiver module...