US Patent Issued to JT International on March 25 for "Aerosol generation device having closure with rigid biasing element" (Dutch Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,776, issued on March 25, was assigned to JT International S.A. (Switzerland).

"Aerosol generation device having closure with rigid biasing element" was invented by Ernst Hupkes (Kampen, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aerosol generation device has a body, a closure, a resilient element and a rigid element. The body has an aperture through which an aerosol substrate is receivable into the aerosol generation device. The closure is moveable relative to the aperture between a closed position in which the closure covers the aperture and an open position in which the aperture is substantially unobstructed by the closure. The...