US Patent Issued to Altria Client Services on April 14 for "Nicotine pod assemblies and nicotine e-vaping devices" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,172, issued on April 14, was assigned to Altria Client Services LLC (Richmond, Va.).

"Nicotine pod assemblies and nicotine e-vaping devices" was invented by Dean Twite (London), Yannick Hourmand (Haslingfield, Great Britain), Charles Dendy (Richmond, Va.), Bipin Patil (Richmond, Va.), Rangaraj S. Sundar (Midlothian, Va.), Christopher Newcomb (Richmond, Va.), Niall Gallagher (Cambridge, Great Britain), Raymond W. Lau (Glen Allen, Va.) and Eric Hawes (Glen Allen, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A nicotine e-vaping device may include a nicotine pod assembly and a device body. The nicotine pod assembly has upstream and downstream end...