ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,232,533, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to NICOVENTURES TRADING Ltd. (London).

"Inductive heating assemblies for generating an aerosol" was invented by Rory Fraser (London), Colin Dickens (London) and Siddhartha Jain (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inductive heating assembly for generating an aerosol from an aerosol precursor material in an aerosol provision system, the inductive heating assembly including: a susceptor; and a drive coil arranged to induce current flow in the susceptor to heat the susceptor and vaporize aerosol precursor material in proximity with a surface of the susceptor, and wherein the susceptor includes r...