US Patent Issued to Philip Morris Products on July 29 for "Detection of adverse heater conditions in an electrically heated aerosol generating system" (Singaporean, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,646, issued on July 29, was assigned to Philip Morris Products S.A. (Neuchatel, Switzerland).

"Detection of adverse heater conditions in an electrically heated aerosol generating system" was invented by Stephane Bilat (Neuchatel, Switzerland), Guillaume Colotte (Neuchatel, Switzerland), Daryl Ng Wai Leong (Singapore) and Ho Keat Chang (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrically operated aerosol-generating system is provided, including: a heating element; a power supply; a temperature sensor; electric circuitry in communication with the heating element, temperature sensor, and the power supply, the circuitry including a ...