US Patent Issued to Japan Tobacco on July 1 for "Heater assembly and container" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,863, issued on July 1, was assigned to Japan Tobacco Inc (Tokyo).

"Heater assembly and container" was invented by Manabu Yamada (Tokyo), Manabu Takeuchi (Tokyo), Yasunobu Inoue (Tokyo), Kimitaka Uchii (Tokyo) and Tateki Sumii (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heater assembly comprises a container including a cylindrical portion that forms a chamber in which a flavor generating article is contained, and a heater arranged in a peripheral surface of the cylindrical portion. The container includes a first channel extending along a longitudinal direction of the cylindrical portion and located adjacently to the chamber in a direction ...