ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,626, issued on Oct. 21.
"Aerosol device and method for moving consumable" was invented by Alexander Chinhak Chong (St. Louis Park, Minn.), William Bartkowski (Minneapolis), David Crosby (Watsonville, Calif.), David Wayne (Jupiter, Fla.) and Gerard Shudall (Liverpool, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for converting a consumable into an aerosol with high heat without burning the consumable using a moving aerosol-producing substrate to incrementally heat portions of the substrate to release the consumable from various portions of the substrate. The aerosol-producing substrate is placed in an aerosol-producing device...