ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,491, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Imperial Tobacco Ltd. (Bristol, Great Britain).
"Smoking substitute device/system" was invented by Daniel Harden (San Jose, Calif.), Jonathan Marchbank (Liverpool, Great Britain), Thomas Sudlow (Liverpool, Great Britain), Pete Lomas (Liverpool, Great Britain), Chris Lord (Liverpool, Great Britain), John Mckeon (Liverpool, Great Britain), Britt Jensen (San Jose, Calif.) and Brian Leach (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a smoking substitute device. The smoking substitute device comprises: an elongate main body, the main body having a body length in...