US Patent Issued to ALTRIA CLIENT SERVICES on March 25 for "Heating engine control circuits and non-nicotine electronic vaping devices including the same" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,785, issued on March 25, was assigned to ALTRIA CLIENT SERVICES LLC (Richmond, Va.).

"Heating engine control circuits and non-nicotine electronic vaping devices including the same" was invented by Niall Gallagher (Cambridge, Great Britain), Terrance Bache (Richmond, Va.), Rangaraj S. Sundar (Midlothian, Va.), Jarrett Keen (Richmond, Va.), Raymond W. Lau (Glen Allen, Va.) and Eric Hawes (Glen Allen, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The heating engine control circuit includes a rail converter circuit and a gate driver circuit. The rail converter circuit is configured to convert a power supply voltage into a power signal based on a v...