ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,994, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to SHENZHEN FIRST UNION TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Shenzhen Guangdong Province, China).
"Heat-not-burn tobacco device" was invented by Chenpan Dai (Shenzhen, China), Ruilong Hu (Shenzhen, China), Zhongli Xu (Shenzhen, China) and Yonghai Li (Shenzhen, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heat-not-burn tobacco device, which is used to heat an aerosol-generating substrate so as to generate an aerosol. The heat-not-burn tobacco device comprises: a housing; a heating assembly, which is provided inside of the housing and comprises a heating chamber that extends along the axial direction and that is used to ...