ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,991, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to ALTRIA CLIENT SERVICES LLC (Richmond, Va.).

"Aerosol-generating system comprising a modular assembly" was invented by Tony Reevell (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aerosol-generating system includes a plurality of cartridges and an aerosol-generating device. At least one cartridge of the plurality of cartridges includes a first aerosol-forming substrate, the plurality of cartridges are configured for selective connection to each other to form a cartridge assembly. The aerosol-generating device includes a storage including a second aerosol-forming substrate in the storage, an electric h...