ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,562, issued on June 24, was assigned to Imperial Tobacco Ltd. (Bristol, Great Britain).
"Smoking substitute device having an auxiliary power supply" was invented by Oliver Talbot (Liverpool, Great Britain) and Chris Lord (Liverpool, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a smoking substitute system comprising a connector configured to receive a main power supply from a mobile device and to supply the main power supply to a vaporizer. The system further comprises an auxiliary power source configured to provide an auxiliary power supply to the vaporizer and/or at least one auxiliary component of the smoking substitut...