US Patent Issued to RAI Strategic Holdings on June 10 for "Electronic smoking article including a heating apparatus implementing a solid aerosol generating source" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,460, issued on June 10, was assigned to RAI Strategic Holdings Inc. (Winston-Salem, N.C.).

"Electronic smoking article including a heating apparatus implementing a solid aerosol generating source" was invented by Alfred Charles Bless (Asheboro, N.C.), Michael Andrew Liberti (Clemmons, N.C.) and Stephen Benson Sears (Siler City, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A smoking article is provided, having a component housing including a power source, and a tubular housing having a first end and a longitudinally-opposed second end, wherein the first or second end is configured to receive the component housing. The tubular housing includes ...