ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,747, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to PARI Pharma GmbH (Starnberg, Germany).

"Aerosol delivery device and operating method for the aerosol delivery device" was invented by Martin Knoch (Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to an aerosol delivery device comprising an aerosol generator for generating an aerosol in the aerosol delivery device, a sensor configured to detect a use of the aerosol delivery device for aerosol treatment, and a controller configured to deactivate the aerosol generator if no use of the aerosol delivery device for aerosol treatment is detected by the sensor. Furt...