US Patent Issued to British American Tobacco (Investments) on July 22 for "Apparatus for heating smokable material and article of smokable material" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,288, issued on July 22, was assigned to British American Tobacco (Investments) Ltd. (London).

"Apparatus for heating smokable material and article of smokable material" was invented by Duane Anthony Kaufman (Hollandale, Wis.) and Jesse Eugene Robinson (Janesville, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus is provided for enabling smokable material to be heated to volatize at least one component of the smokable material. In one example, the apparatus has a capacitive sensor arranged to sense a change in capacitance when an article of smokable material is associated with a housing of the apparatus in use. In another example, the...