US Patent Issued to RAI STRATEGIC HOLDINGS on Feb. 17 for "Separate age/ID verification module for aerosol delivery device" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,944, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to RAI STRATEGIC HOLDINGS INC. (Winston-Salem, N.C.).

"Separate age/ID verification module for aerosol delivery device" was invented by Sean Daugherty (Winston-Salem, N.C.), Sean Lukan (Winston-Salem, N.C.) and Vincent Ireland (Winston-Salem, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aerosol delivery device may include a rechargeable power source configured to provide power to generate an aerosol, device electronics configured to generate the aerosol responsive to application of the power from the power source, and an authentication module. The authentication module may include a separate chip or cir...