ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,201, issued on June 17, 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), Pete Lomas (Liverpool, Great Britain), Nikhil Aggarwal (Liverpool, Great Britain), Chris Lord (Liverpool, Great Britain), Samantha Murray (Liverpool, Great Britain) and Tom Sudlow (Liverpool, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A smoking substitute device comprising a heater connected to a main body of the device. The device includes a cap covering at least a portion of the heater. The cap is releasably engaged with...