US Patent Issued to ALTRIA CLIENT SERVICES on July 22 for "Charger assembly and charging system for an electronic vaping device" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,308, issued on July 22, was assigned to ALTRIA CLIENT SERVICES LLC (Richmond, Va.).

"Charger assembly and charging system for an electronic vaping device" was invented by Geoffrey Brandon Jordan (Midlothian, Va.), Barry S. Smith (Hopewell, Va.), Douglas A. Burton (Glen Allen, Va.), Eric Hawes (Glen Allen, Va.), Sean Sundberg (Richmond, Va.) and Berina Yerkic-Husejnovic (Richmond, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A charger assembly is configured to charge the electronic vaping device. The charger assembly includes a base including a housing defining a port. The port is configured to receive a tip end of an electronic vaping device. ...