ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,408, issued on May 27, was assigned to NICOVENTURES TRADING Ltd. (London).

"Apparatus with a circuit for controlling the power mode of an aerosol generating device" was invented by Martin Horrod (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Victor Clavez Lopez (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and method of application are described, which include a first switching arrangement configured to generate an alternating current from a power source. The alternating current flows through an inductive element of a resonant circuit for inductively heating a susceptor arrangement and heats an aerosol generating material of ...