ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,487, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to JAPAN TABACCO INC. (Tokyo).

"Control device for aerosol inhalation device and aerosol inhalation device" was invented by Kazuma Mizuguchi (Tokyo) and Takeshi Akao (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Control device for aerosol inhalation device, includes operational amplifier including output terminal configured to generate voltage according to voltage applied to load configured to heat aerosol source and having correlation between temperature and electrical resistance value, control unit including input terminal and configured to perform processing based on voltage applied to the input termin...