US Patent Issued to Imperial Tobacco on Sept. 30 for "Smoking substitute devices and associated methods, systems and apparatuses" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,642, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Imperial Tobacco Ltd. (Bristol, Great Britain).

"Smoking substitute devices and associated methods, systems and apparatuses" was invented by David Thomas (Liverpool, Great Britain), Oliver Talbot (Liverpool, Great Britain), Daniel Fard (Liverpool, Great Britain), Daniel Harden (San Jose, Calif.), Cole Derby (San Jose, Calif.) and KaiKai Liu (Liverpool, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A smoking substitute device is configured to record and store user data that is generated during operation of the device. Analyzing the user data can provide the user with useful information regardin...