US Patent Issued to Altria Client Services on Dec. 16 for "Heat-not-burn (HNB) aerosol-generating devices with compression assembly" (Virginia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,832, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Altria Client Services LLC (Richmond, Va.).

"Heat-not-burn (HNB) aerosol-generating devices with compression assembly" was invented by Jason Flora (Richmond, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aerosol-generating device includes a heating chamber structure, a heater coupled to the heating chamber structure, and a compression assembly. The heating chamber structure defines a fixed-volume enclosure and is configured to hold an aerosol-forming substrate within a first region of the enclosure. The heater is proximate to a first surface that at least partly defines the first region and is configur...