ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,423, issued on May 13, was assigned to JT International S.A. (Switzerland).

"Electrical charger device for an electronic cigarette" was invented by Adrian Peter Stockall (Grand-Saconnex, Switzerland), Ronald Van Tuijl (Geneva) and David Vargas (Geneva).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an electrical charger device and method performed by an electrical charger device for an electronic cigarette. The electrical charger device comprises an interface configured to establish a wireless communicative pairing between the electrical charger device and an electronic cigarette, the wireless communicative pairing being establishab...