US Patent Issued to Altria Client Services on July 7 for "Aerosol-generating system and method of dispensing liquid aerosol-forming substrate with pumped air" (Swiss, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,676, issued on July 7, was assigned to Altria Client Services LLC (Richmond, Va.).

"Aerosol-generating system and method of dispensing liquid aerosol-forming substrate with pumped air" was invented by Ben Mazur (Bristol, Great Britain), Eva Saade Latorre (Neuchatel, Switzerland) and Alain Tabasso (Essertines-sur-Yverdon, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aerosol-generating system may include a liquid storage portion, a vaporizer, and a pump. The liquid storage portion may be configured to store a liquid aerosol-forming substrate. The vaporizer may be configured to volatilize the liquid aerosol-forming substrate. The pump m...