US Patent Issued to Imperial Tobacco on June 24 for "Consumable for a smoking substitute device and a smoking substitute device containing same" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,570, issued on June 24, was assigned to Imperial Tobacco Ltd. (Bristol, Great Britain).

"Consumable for a smoking substitute device and a smoking substitute device containing same" was invented by Pete Lomas (Liverpool, Great Britain) and Chris Lord (Liverpool, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A consumable for a smoking substitute device, and a smoking substitute device including the consumable. The consumable comprises: a tank for storing vapourisable liquid; a heater assembly; and a mouthpiece."

The patent was filed on Nov. 2, 2020, under Application No. 17/086,944.

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