US 12,310,419 B2
Aerosol-generating device
Enrico Stura, Palézieux-Village (CH); Mathias Torsten Rickard Tingström, Morges (CH); Ezequiel Martin Valdez Rojas, Pully (CH); and Valerio Oliana, Pully (CH)
Assigned to Philip Morris Products S.A., Neuchatel (CH)
Filed by Philip Morris Products S.A., Neuchatel (CH)
Filed on Feb. 14, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/441,782.
Application 18/441,782 is a continuation of application No. 18/041,564, granted, now 11,957,181, previously published as PCT/EP2022/067607, filed on Jun. 27, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 21182962 (EP), filed on Jun. 30, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2024/0180257 A1, Jun. 6, 2024
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. A24F 13/00 (2006.01); A24F 40/20 (2020.01); A24F 40/50 (2020.01); A24F 40/60 (2020.01); F21V 33/00 (2006.01)
CPC A24F 40/60 (2020.01) [A24F 40/20 (2020.01); A24F 40/50 (2020.01); F21V 33/0004 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An aerosol-generating device for heating an aerosol-forming substrate to generate an inhalable aerosol during a usage session, the aerosol-generating device comprising:
control electronics; and
an outer lighting area partially or wholly surrounding an inner lighting area,
wherein the control electronics are coupled to the outer and the inner lighting areas and configured to:
i) selectively activate one of the outer and inner lighting areas to generate a first predetermined light emission conveying first data indicative of a state of the aerosol-generating device, and
ii) selectively activate the other of the outer and inner lighting areas to generate a second predetermined light emission conveying second data indicative of a state of the aerosol-generating device, wherein the first data and the second data are different from one another.