US Patent Issued to Altria Client Services on Oct. 28 for "Three-piece electronic vaping device with planar heater" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,375, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Altria Client Services LLC (Richmond, Va.).

"Three-piece electronic vaping device with planar heater" was invented by Peter J. Lipowicz (Midlothian, Va.), Srinivasan Janardhan (Glen Allen, Va.) and Travis Garthaffner (Richmond, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic vaping device includes a power supply section, a heater assembly section, and a cartridge. The power supply section includes a power supply. The cartridge section includes a reservoir configured to store a pre-vapor formulation, and a wick in fluid communication with the pre-vapor formulation. The heater assembly section i...