Patent ID: 11957181
Assignee: PHILIP MORRIS PRODUCTS S.A.
Field: Other consumer goods (Other fields)
Classification: CPC A  F | IPC A  F

Claim 0:
1. An aerosol-generating device for heating an aerosol-forming substrate to generate an inhalable aerosol during a usage session, the aerosol-generating device comprising:
control electronics, and
an outer lighting array partially or wholly surrounding an inner lighting array,
wherein the control electronics are coupled to the outer and inner lighting arrays and are configured to:
i) selectively activate one of the outer and inner lighting arrays 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 arrays to generate a second predetermined light emission conveying second data indicative of a state of the aerosol-generating device,
wherein the first data and the second data are different from one another.