ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,853, issued on July 1, was assigned to Imperial Tobacco Ltd. (Bristol, Great Britain).
"Smoking substitute consumable" was invented by Kate Ferrie (Liverpool, Great Britain), Ross Shenton (Liverpool, Great Britain) and Jill Jones (Liverpool, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aerosol-forming article is disclosed having an improved filter at its axial downstream end, for instance a mouthpiece end. The improved filter comprises a filter segment having a plurality of bores extending there through, wherein a cooling segment is arranged upstream of the filter segment, the cooling segment comprising portion having a central bor...