ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,618, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Imperial Tobacco Ltd. (Bristol, Great Britain).
"Smoking substitute consumable" was invented by Kate Ferrie (Liverpool, Great Britain), Edward Ross Shenton (Liverpool, Great Britain), John Williams (Liverpool, Great Britain), Jill Jones (Liverpool, Great Britain) and Christopher Lord (Liverpool, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aerosol-forming article (e.g. a heat-not-burn consumable) comprising an aerosol-forming substrate formed of a plurality of longitudinally-aligned, elongate shreds of plant material, wherein the plant material comprises at least one cannabinoid compound selec...