US Patent Issued to Altria Client Services on Aug. 18 for "Aerosol-generating system with liquid aerosol-forming substrate identification" (Swiss, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,708,726, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Altria Client Services LLC (Richmond, Va.).

"Aerosol-generating system with liquid aerosol-forming substrate identification" was invented by Oleg Mironov (Cudrefin, Switzerland), Ihar Nikolaevich Zinovik (Peseux, Switzerland), Jerome Christian Courbat (Neuchatel, Switzerland) and Tony Reevell (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aerosol-generating system includes a storage portion configured to hold an aerosol-forming substrate, a first electrode, a second electrode spaced from the first electrode, and a control system. At least a portion of the storage portion is between the first electro...