US Patent Issued to Altria Client Services on April 8 for "Aerosol generating device with piercing assembly" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,268,808, issued on April 8, was assigned to Altria Client Services LLC (Richmond, Va.).

"Aerosol generating device with piercing assembly" was invented by Rui Nuno Batista (Morges, Switzerland) and Laurent Manca (Sullens, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrically heated aerosol-generating device includes a main housing having a cavity, a closure body engageable with the main housing to enclose a cartridge in the cavity, and a heater assembly. The heater assembly includes an elongate piercing assembly configured to extend into the open-ended passage of the cartridge and one or more electric heaters. The piercing assembly ...