US Patent Issued to R.J. Reynolds Tobacco on Feb. 25 for "Aerosol delivery device with sliding sleeve" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,232,542, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Winston-Salem, N.C.).

"Aerosol delivery device with sliding sleeve" was invented by Thaddeus Jackson (Summerfield, N.C.), Billy T. Conner (Clemmons, N.C.), Edmond Strother Smith III (Rural Hall, N.C.), Karen Cleckley (Kernersville, N.C.), Keri Meggan Cox (Pleasant Garden, N.C.) and Steven Lee Worm (Raleigh, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to an aerosol delivery device and a holder for use with a removable substrate cartridge. In one implementation, the holder may include a main body and a sleeve. The main body may define a receiv...