US Patent Issued to Imperial Tobacco on Dec. 23 for "Smoking substitute system" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,942, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Imperial Tobacco Ltd. (Bristol, Great Britain).

"Smoking substitute system" was invented by Kate Ferrie (Liverpool, Great Britain), Ross Shenton (Liverpool, Great Britain), Chris Lord (Liverpool, Great Britain), Samantha Murray (Liverpool, Great Britain), Med Benyezzar (Liverpool, Great Britain), Tom Sudlow (Liverpool, Great Britain), David Jones (Liverpool, Great Britain) and Pete Lomas (Liverpool, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a smoking substitute system and particularly, although not exclusively, to a smoking substitute device. The smoking sub...