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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 27, 2025
Filed:
Feb. 14, 2024
Philip Morris Products S.a., Neuchatel, CH;
Enrico Stura, Palézieux-Village, CH;
Mathias Torsten Rickard Tingström, Morges, CH;
Ezequiel Martin Valdez Rojas, Pully, CH;
Valerio Oliana, Pully, CH;
Philip Morris Products S.A., Neuchatel, CH;
Abstract
An aerosol-generating device is provided for heating an aerosol-forming substrate to generate an inhalable aerosol during a usage session, the aerosol-generating device including: control electronics; and an outer lighting area partially or wholly surrounding an inner lighting area, the control electronics being 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, the first data and the second data being different from one another.