US Patent Issued to ALTRIA CLIENT SERVICES on Oct. 7 for "Charging systems for aerosol-generating devices" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,383, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to ALTRIA CLIENT SERVICES LLC (Richmond, Va.).

"Charging systems for aerosol-generating devices" was invented by Zack W. Blackmon (Richmond, Va.), Thomas Tran (Richmond, Va.), Terry Bache (Richmond, Va.), Jarrett Keen (Richmond, Va.), Niall Gallagher (Richmond, Va.), Yannick Hourmand (Haslingfield, Great Britain), Guillaume Michel (Cambridge, Great Britain), Rangaraj S. Sundar (Midlothian, Va.), Raymond W. Lau (Glen Allen, Va.) and Eric Hawes (Midlothian, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A charging system for an aerosol-generating device includes a processor and a memory in communication with the ...