US Patent Issued to Japan Tobacco on April 1 for "Aerosol generation device provided with control unit for detection of abnormal state of sensor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,752, issued on April 1, was assigned to Japan Tobacco Inc (Tokyo).

"Aerosol generation device provided with control unit for detection of abnormal state of sensor" was invented by Takeshi Akao (Tokyo), Manabu Yamada (Tokyo) and Hiroshi Tezuka (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power supply unit of an aerosol generation device that supplies electric power to a load that generates aerosol including a sensor that is in an operating state among a normal state and a plurality of abnormal states, and detects an aerosol generation request while the power supply unit is in an active state, a control unit that detects a state of the sens...