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Patent No.:

US 12133559 B1

Date of Patent:

Nov. 05, 2024

Filed:

Sep. 08, 2021

Device agnostic psa for aerosol generation device

Applicant:

Rai Strategic Holdings, Inc., Winston-Salem, NC (US);

Inventors:

Sean Daugherty, Winston-Salem, NC (US);

Sean Lukan, Winston-Salem, NC (US);

Robert Logan Garris, Winston-Salem, NC (US);

Keith Anderson, Winston-Salem, NC (US);

Assignee:

RAI STRATEGIC HOLDINGS, INC., Winston-Salem, NC (US);

Attorney:

Burr & Forman LLP

Primary Examiner:

Christopher M Rodd

Assistant Examiner:

Jennifer A Kessie

Int. Cl.

CPC ...

A24F 40/53 (2020.01); A24F 40/51 (2020.01); A24F 40/65 (2020.01); H04B 10/11 (2013.01); H04W 4/20 (2018.01);

U.S. Cl.

CPC ...

A24F 40/53 (2020.01); A24F 40/51 (2020.01); A24F 40/65 (2020.01); H04B 10/11 (2013.01); H04W 4/20 (2013.01);

Abstract

A method of preventing unauthorized use of an aerosol provision device may include receiving a wireless signal including an unlock code for unlocking the aerosol provision device, processing the wireless signal to determine host device characterization information or environmental context information, tuning processing circuitry to process the unlock code based on the host device characterization information or environmental context information, and transitioning the aerosol provision device from a locked state to an unlocked state responsive to processing the unlock code.

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