US Patent Issued to RAI STRATEGIC HOLDINGS on July 8 for "Heater for an aerosol delivery device and methods of formation thereof" (North Carolina, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,732, issued on July 8, was assigned to RAI STRATEGIC HOLDINGS INC. (Winston-Salem, N.C.).

"Heater for an aerosol delivery device and methods of formation thereof" was invented by Karen V. Taluskie (Cary, N.C.), Stephen Benson Sears (Siler City, N.C.), Eric Taylor Hunt (Pfafftown, N.C.), William Robert Collett (Lexington, N.C.), Yi-ping Chang (Greensboro, N.C.), Kristen Dodds Weight (Stow, Mass.), Jeffrey A. Karg (Hopkinton, Mass.), Graham P. Eacock (Westborough, Mass.), Matthew C. Ebbs (Newton-Highlands, Mass.), Robert C. Uschold (Leominster, Mass.) and Walker Maclaughlin Sloan III (Berlin, Mass.).

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