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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 25, 2018
Filed:
Oct. 13, 2015
Philip Morris Products S.a., Neuchatel, CH;
Raphael Holzherr, Fontaines, CH;
Philip Morris Products S.A., Neuchatel, CH;
Abstract
A system is provided, including a primary device and a secondary device, the primary device having electrical contact pins configured to engage electrical contacts on the secondary device to allow for the exchange of power and data between the devices; the primary device having n electrical contact pins, where n is a positive integer greater than two; the devices are constructed such that the pins of the primary device are engageable with the contacts of the secondary device in a plurality of m distinct electrical orientations, wherein m is a positive integer less than n; and the primary device is configured to determine which of the m orientations the secondary device is in relative to the primary device by comparing voltages measured between at least m different pairs of contacts with a voltage record stored in a memory in the primary device.