US Patent Issued to Philip Morris Products on Dec. 9 for "Aerosol-generating system with chromatic recognition" (Swiss, German, Russian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,772, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Philip Morris Products S.A. (Neuchatel, Switzerland).

"Aerosol-generating system with chromatic recognition" was invented by Rui Nuno Batista (Morges, Switzerland), Ricardo Cali (Mannheim, Germany) and Nikita Karelin (Moscow).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aerosol-generating system has an optical sensor disposed on a portion of an exterior surface of the aerosol-generating system. The optical sensor is configured to output sensor data. A controller is operably coupled to the optical sensor. The controller is configured to manipulate one or more operating parameters of an aerosolizer element of ...