ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,357, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Japan Tobacco Inc (Tokyo).
"Power supply unit for aerosol generation device" was invented by Yasuhiro Ono (Tokyo), Minoru Kitahara (Tokyo) and Shujiro Tanaka (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power supply unit for an aerosol generation device includes: a power supply configured to supply power to a heater configured to heat an aerosol source; a receptacle configured to receive power for charging the power supply from a plug connected to an external power supply; a charger configured to control charging of the power supply by power received by the receptacle; and a controller. The receptac...