US Patent Issued to Philip Morris Products on Sept. 9 for "Aerosol-generating device providing gesture initiation of a status query" (Swiss Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,706, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Philip Morris Products S.A. (Neuchatel, Switzerland).

"Aerosol-generating device providing gesture initiation of a status query" was invented by Valerio Oliana (Pully, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aerosol-generating device is provided for generating an aerosol during a usage session, the aerosol-generating device including: an indicator system; a motion detector; and a controller; the motion detection unit being configured to detect movement of the device and to identify a first gesture and a second gesture different from the first gesture, in which, in response to the first g...