US Patent Issued to Altria Client Services on March 17 for "Non-nicotine pod assemblies and non-nicotine e-vaping devices" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,575,607, issued on March 17, was assigned to Altria Client Services LLC (Richmond, Va.).

"Non-nicotine pod assemblies and non-nicotine e-vaping devices" was invented by Yannick Hourmand (Haslingfield, Great Britain), Christopher Newcomb (Richmond, Va.), 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 non-nicotine e-vaping device may include a non-nicotine pod assembly and a device body defining a through hole configured to receive the non-nicotine pod assembly. The non-nicotine pod assembly is configured to hold a non-nicotine pre-vapor formulation. The through hole of the device body in...