ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,091, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Philip Morris Products S.A. (Neuchatel, Switzerland).
"Aerosol-generating system with resonant circuit for cartridge recognition" was invented by Jerome Christian Courbat (Cortaillod, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aerosol-generating system is provided, including: a cartridge including an aerosol-forming substrate; a resonant circuit, the cartridge including at least part of the resonant circuit, the circuit being configured to resonate at a predetermined resonant frequency associated with an identity of the cartridge; and an aerosol-generating device including: a housing to remo...