US Patent Issued to Altria Client Services on Feb. 4 for "Electronic vaping device with outlet-end illumination" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,219,668, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Altria Client Services LLC (Richmond, Va.).

"Electronic vaping device with outlet-end illumination" was invented by Christopher S. Tucker (Midlothian, Va.), Phillip Diana (Richmond, Va.), Nam Tran (Richmond, Va.) and Matthew Caparrelli (Richmond, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cartridge for an e-vaping device includes a housing extending along a longitudinal axis of the cartridge, and an outlet-end insert coupled to the outlet end of the housing. The housing at least partially encloses a pre-vapor formulation reservoir and a vapor generator of the cartridge and further channels light via in...