ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,741, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Zhangjiakou Cigarette Factory Co. Ltd. (Zhangjiakou, China).
"Cigarette device management system and method" was invented by Bo Liu (Zhangjiakou, China), Aihua Zhang (Zhangjiakou, China), Hengzhu Shi (Zhangjiakou, China), Xiaotang Li (Zhangjiakou, China), Weidong Yao (Zhangjiakou, China), Guoping Wang (Zhangjiakou, China), Zijuan Li (Zhangjiakou, China), Chuan Yang (Zhangjiakou, China), Junjie Pang (Zhangjiakou, China), Peng Ji (Zhangjiakou, China), Mingqi Nan (Zhangjiakou, China), Zhanbo Jiang (Zhangjiakou, China), Xiaohua Yang (Zhangjiakou, China), Jia Tian (Zhangjiakou, China), Dongfeng Li (Zhangjiakou, China) and Dong Yan (Zhangjiakou, C...