US Patent Issued to Altria Client Services on July 22 for "Heater of an electronic vaping device" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,230, issued on July 22, was assigned to Altria Client Services LLC (Richmond, Va.).

"Heater of an electronic vaping device" was invented by Christopher S. Tucker (Midlothian, Va.), Charles Dendy (Richmond, Va.), Nam Tran (Richmond, Va.), David Alvarez (Richmond, Va.) and Patrick McElhinney (Chesterfield, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of forming a heater assembly of an e-vaping device includes bending a wire to form a first lobe and bending the wire to form a second lobe. The first lobe and the second lobe form a generally sinuously-shaped heater having a first set of lobes and a second set of lobe. A first apex of the f...