US Patent Issued to Altria Client Services on June 3 for "Apparatus with surface heater and gel formulation" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,929, issued on June 3, was assigned to Altria Client Services LLC (Richmond, Va.).

"Apparatus with surface heater and gel formulation" was invented by Munmaya K. Mishra (Manakin Sabot, Va.), Shaoyong Yu (Glen Allen, Va.), Raymond Lau (Richmond, Va.), Pauline Marcq (Richmond, Va.), Geoffrey Brandon Jordan (Midlothian, Va.) and Christopher S. Tucker (Midlothian, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a body of pre-vapor formulation configured to be contained within a reservoir, the pre-vapor formulation being a gel formulation. The apparatus includes a surface heater in contact with a surface of the body of gel formula...