ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,729, issued on April 1, was assigned to RAI STRATEGIC HOLDINGS INC. (Winston-Salem, N.C.).

"Heat conducting substrate for electrically heated aerosol delivery device" was invented by Andries Sebastian (Clemmons, N.C.), Stephen Benson Sears (Siler City, N.C.), Billy Tyrone Conner (Clemmons, N.C.), Rajesh Sur (Winston-Salem, N.C.), S. Keith Cole (Advance, N.C.), Thaddeus Jackson (High Point, N.C.), Timothy Frederick Thomas (High Point, N.C.), Paul E. Braxton (Summerfield, N.C.), Curtis Foster Doe (Winston-Salem, N.C.), Vahid Hejazi (Winston-Salem, N.C.) and Kathryn Lynn Wilberding (High Point, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The pr...