US Patent Issued to Philip Morris Products on Aug. 5 for "System, method, and computer program product for determining a characteristic of a susceptor" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,552, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Philip Morris Products S.A. (Neuchatel, Switzerland).

"System, method, and computer program product for determining a characteristic of a susceptor" was invented by Andrew L. Bleloch (Kenmore, Wash.), Peter Nysen (Campbell, Calif.), Neeraj S. Bhardwaj (Nevada City, Calif.) and Matthew Greenfield (Santa Cruz, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a system for determining a characteristic of a susceptor element that may be associated with a vaporizer device. The system includes an inductor element and a control device. The control device is configured to detect a magnetic field associat...