ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,970, issued on March 18, was assigned to NICOVENTURES TRADING Ltd. (London).

"Apparatus for an aerosol generating device" was invented by Julian White (London) and Martin Horrod (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, apparatus and computer program is described including: applying an impulse to a resonant circuit including an inductive element, for inductively heating a susceptor, and a capacitor, wherein the applied impulse induces an impulse response between the capacitor and the inductive element of the resonant circuit, wherein each impulse response has a resonant frequency; and generating an output signal dependent on ...