US Patent Issued to Altria Client Services on April 29 for "Method of configuring fluid permeable heater" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,803, issued on April 29, was assigned to Altria Client Services LLC (Richmond, Va.).

"Method of configuring fluid permeable heater" was invented by Patrick Charles Silvestrini (Neuchatel, Switzerland), Ihar Nikolaevich Zinovik (Peseux, Switzerland) and Guillaume Frederick (Les-Geneveys-sur-Coffrane, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The method includes first defining a reservoir within at least one first housing, the reservoir having a first part and a second part and being configured to contain a pre-vapor formulation, second defining at least one channel that is configured to communicate the pre-vapor formulation from the f...