US Patent Issued on May 19 for "Electronic smoking article with haptic feedback" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,628,877, issued on May 19.

"Electronic smoking article with haptic feedback" was invented by Michael Ryan Galloway (Winston-Salem, N.C.), Raymond Charles Henry Jr. (Cary, N.C.), Glen Kimsey (Cary, N.C.) and Frederic Philippe Ampolini (Winston-Salem, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides an electronic smoking article adapted to provide haptic feedback to a user. The smoking article can comprise a housing that includes a haptic feedback component, such as a vibration transducer. The smoking article can be formed of a control body and/or a cartridge, and the haptic feedback component may be present in any one or...