US Patent Issued to Imperial Tobacco on Sept. 23 for "Aerosol generating apparatus having a push-push mechanism" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,350, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Imperial Tobacco Ltd. (Bristol, Great Britain).

"Aerosol generating apparatus having a push-push mechanism" was invented by Matthew Pilkington (Liverpool, Great Britain), Peter Lomas (Liverpool, Great Britain) and Molly McGuinness (Liverpool, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to an aerosol generating apparatus wherein a consumable is engaged with a body by pushing the consumable toward the body in a first direction, and wherein the consumable is disengaged from the body by subsequently pushing the consumable in the same first direction. Consequently, ...