ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,944, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to SHAHEEN INNOVATIONS HOLDING Ltd. (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates).

"Nicotine delivery device with identification arrangement" was invented by Mohammed Alshaiba Saleh Ghannam Almazrouei (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates), Sajid Bhatti (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates), Jeff Machovec (Rochester, Minn.), Clement Lamoureux (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates) and Imad Lahoud (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A nicotine delivery device (200) for generating a mist containing nicotine for inhalation by a user. The device comprises a mist generator device (201) and a driver dev...