US Patent Issued to NICOVENTURES TRADING on Jan. 13 for "Aerosol generating apparatus and method of operating same" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,520,876, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to NICOVENTURES TRADING Ltd. (London).

"Aerosol generating apparatus and method of operating same" was invented by Julian Darryn White (Cambridgeshire, Great Britain) and Martin Daniel Horrod (Cambridgeshire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aerosol generating apparatus has a composite susceptor for heating an aerosol generating material in use thereby to generate an aerosol. The composite susceptor comprises a support portion and a susceptor portion supported by the support portion. The apparatus comprises an induction element arranged for inductive energy transfer to the susceptor...