ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,072, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to JT International SA (Switzerland).
"Heater control in aerosol generating device" was invented by Aidan O'Hare (Coventry, Great Britain) and Stephen Rooney (Wrexham, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device of an aerosol generating device includes a main control unit, and is connectable to a battery and a heater coil. The main control unit is configured to carry out one or more execution loops, a first execution loop includes applying a first power output to the heater coil for a first number of steps, disabling the first power output and thereby switching off the heater coil ...