US Patent Issued to Imperial Tobacco on Dec. 16 for "Smoking substitute devices and associated methods, systems and apparatuses" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,838, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Imperial Tobacco Ltd..

"Smoking substitute devices and associated methods, systems and apparatuses" was invented by Oliver Talbot (Liverpool, Great Britain), Daniel Fard (Liverpool, Great Britain), Kaikai Liu (Liverpool, Great Britain), Daniel Harden (San Jose, Calif.), Britt Jensen (San Jose, Calif.) and Brian Leach (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for managing a smoking substitute device, the system comprising; a smoking substitute device comprising; a control unit; a memory configured to store firmware for operating the smoking substitute device and a device-specific...