US Patent Issued to Altria Client Services on Oct. 21 for "Methods to add menthol, botanic materials, and/or non-botanic materials to a cartridge, and/or an electronic vaping device including the cartridge" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,613, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Altria Client Services LLC (Richmond, Va.).

"Methods to add menthol, botanic materials, and/or non-botanic materials to a cartridge, and/or an electronic vaping device including the cartridge" was invented by Gerd Kobal (Sandy Hook, Va.), San Li (Midlothian, Va.) and Peter Lipowicz (Midlothian, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cartridge may include a housing, a liquid supply reservoir in the housing and configured to store a pre-vapor formulation, a vaporizer, and a porous plug. The vaporizer may be in liquid communication with the liquid supply reservoir. The vaporizer may be configured to...