ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,061, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to CHINA TOBACCO YUNNAN INDUSTRIAL Co. LTD (Kunming, China).
"Automatically resettable tobacco heating device" was invented by Zhiqiang Li (Kunming, China), Donglai Zhu (Kunming, China), Tinghua Li (Kunming, China), Shoubo Li (Kunming, China), Junheng You (Kunming, China), Shanzhai Shang (Kunming, China), Jingmei Han (Kunming, China), Ping Lei (Kunming, China), Dalin Yuan (Kunming, China) and Yunhua Qin (Kunming, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automatically resettable smoking paraphernalia includes the following components: an outer upper shell, a smoking cup provided inside the outer upper...