ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,638, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Philip Morris Products S.A. (Neuchatel, Switzerland).
"Aerosol-generating device with article position detector" was invented by Frederic Nicolas (Moret-Loing-et-Orvanne, France) and Cyrille Poindron (Cruseilles, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aerosol-generating device is provided, including: a receiving region configured to removably receive an aerosol-generating article including an aerosol-generating substrate; a position detector configured to detect a position of the received aerosol-generating article; a warning element configured to generate a warning signal; and a controller c...