ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,801, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to FONTEM VENTURES B.V. (Amsterdam).
"Electronic cigarette" was invented by Ramon Alarcon (Los Gatos, Calif.), Dennis Rasmussen (Campbell, Calif.), Hitesh Bagai (Bristol, Great Britain) and Andreas Ingo Beer (Grasbrunn, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more features of an electronic cigarette or an electronic cigarette charging case is configured to hold the electronic cigarette in place and inhibit it from rolling and charge the electronic cigarette."
The patent was filed on May 16, 2022, under Application No. 17/745,558.
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