US Patent Issued to Imperial Tobacco on Oct. 28 for "Smoking substitute device" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,382, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Imperial Tobacco Ltd. (Bristol, Great Britain).

"Smoking substitute device" was invented by Daniel Fard (Liverpool, Great Britain), Oliver Talbot (Liverpool, Great Britain) and David Newns (Liverpool, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for managing a smoking substitute device is described. The system comprises a smoking substitute device; and a mobile device configured to have a wireless connection with the smoking substitute device; wherein the system is configured to activate a geographic lock function on the smoking substitute device thereby disabling the smoking substitut...