Patent ID: 11896051
Assignee: PHILIP MORRIS PRODUCTS S.A.
Field: Other consumer goods (Other fields)
Classification: CPC A  H | IPC A

Claim 3:
4. An aerosol-generating system comprising:
a cartridge, the cartridge comprising:
a heater assembly comprising at least three individually activatable heating elements arranged in an array, and
an aerosol-forming substrate on each of the heating elements; and

an aerosol-generating device configured to engage the cartridge, the aerosol-generating device comprising:
a power supply, and
control circuitry;, wherein the control circuitry is configured to control a supply of power from the power supply to each of the heating elements to generate an aerosol, and wherein the control circuitry is configured to activate the heating elements in a sequence such that each heating element in the array is activated n times before any heating element in the array may be activated n+1 times, and such that, in the sequence, following an activation of a first heating element of the heating elements in the array, each subsequently activated heating element in the array is as far as possible from a most recently activated heating element in the array.