# US 10,869,499 B2 · Article including identification information for use in an electrically heated smoking system > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 10,869,499 B2 - Document ID: US10869499B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 15/263,808 - Filed: 2016-09-13 - Published: 2016-12-29 - Granted: 2020-12-22 - Earliest claimed: 2008-12-24 - Assignees: Philip Morris USA Inc. - Applicants: Philip Morris USA Inc. - Inventors: Felix Fernando; Jean-Pierre Cordey - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10869499B2 ## CPC - B08B 9/0808: {by methods involving the use of tools, e.g. by brushes, scrapers} - A24D 1/20: Cigarettes specially adapted for simulated smoking devices - A24F 40/50: Control or monitoring - A24F 40/51: Arrangement of sensors - A24F 40/53: Monitoring, e.g. fault detection - A24F 40/57: Temperature control - A24F 40/85: Maintenance, e.g. cleaning - G06V 30/2253: {Recognition of characters printed with magnetic ink (G06V30/2247 takes precedence)} - H05B 1/0244: {Heating of fluids (H05B1/0247 takes precedence)} - A24F 40/20: Devices using solid inhalable precursors - G09F 2003/0272: {Labels for containers} - B08B: CLEANING IN GENERAL; PREVENTION OF FOULING IN GENERAL - A24D: CIGARS; CIGARETTES; TOBACCO SMOKE FILTERS; MOUTHPIECES OF CIGARS OR CIGARETTES; MANUFACTURE OF TOBACCO SMOKE FILTERS OR MOUTHPIECES - A24F: SMOKERS' REQUISITES; MATCH BOXES; SIMULATED SMOKING DEVICES (inhaling appliances for medical purposes, shaped like cigars, cigarettes or pipes A61M15/06) - G06V: IMAGE OR VIDEO RECOGNITION OR UNDERSTANDING - H05B: ELECTRIC HEATING; ELECTRIC LIGHT SOURCES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENTS FOR ELECTRIC LIGHT SOURCES, IN GENERAL - G09F: DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; LABELS OR NAME-PLATES; SEALS ## Abstract A smoking article includes identification information encoded on the smoking article. The smoking article can be used with an electrically heated smoking system having a detector for detecting the smoking article and distinguishing the smoking article from other articles based on the identification information. A cleaning article includes identification information encoded on the cleaning article. The cleaning article cleans an electrically heated smoking system having a detector for detecting the cleaning article and distinguishing the cleaning article from other articles based on the identification information. An electrically heated smoking system for receiving an article configured for use with the smoking system includes: a cavity for receiving the article having identification information encoded thereon, a heating element, a power supply, electrical hardware, and a detector capable of detecting the presence of the article in the cavity and distinguishing the article from other articles based on the identification information. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A smoking system comprising: a smoking article including, a tubular body, an aerosol-forming substrate, the aerosol-forming substrate including reconstituted tobacco, encoded identification information, and usage information, the usage information indicating whether the smoking article has been used, the usage information being separate from the encoded identification information; and a detector configured to detect a presence of the article in the system and distinguish the article among the other articles configured for use with the smoking system, based on the encoded identification information and the usage information. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The smoking system of claim 1, wherein the encoded identification information is printed on the smoking article. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The smoking system of claim 1, wherein the encoded identification information includes at least one of visible ink, ultra violet (UV) ink, infrared (IR) ink, phosphorescent ink, fluorescent ink, metallic ink, a sub-combination thereof or a combination thereof. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The smoking system of claim 1, wherein the encoded identification information identifies at least one of smoking article type, aerosol-forming substrate type, cleaning article type, cleaning means information, cleaning ingredient type, date of production, place of production, production batch number, production details, use-by date, a sub-combination thereof or a combination thereof. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The smoking system of claim 1, wherein the encoded identification information includes a plurality of lines having spaces therebetween, each of the plurality of lines representing a first value and each of the spaces representing a second value, the first value and the second value being different. ### Claim 6 (depends on 5) The smoking system of claim 5, wherein the first value and the second value are binary values. ### Claim 7 (depends on 5) The smoking system of claim 5, wherein the plurality of lines are circular. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The smoking system of claim 1, wherein the encoded identification information includes at least a first line and a second line, the first line having a first width and the second line having a second width, the first width and the second width being different. ### Claim 9 (depends on 8) The smoking system of claim 8, wherein the first line represents a first value and the second line represents a second value, the first value and the second value being different. ### Claim 10 (depends on 9) The smoking system of claim 9, wherein the first value and the second value are binary values. ### Claim 11 (depends on 8) The smoking system of claim 8, wherein the first line and the second line are circular. ### Claim 12 (depends on 1) The smoking system of claim 1, wherein the usage information includes a thermally sensitive ink that changes when heated at a noncombustible temperature.