US Patent Issued to Altria Client Services on March 24 for "Non-nicotine pod assemblies and non-nicotine e-vaping devices" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,163, issued on March 24, was assigned to Altria Client Services LLC (Richmond, Va.).

"Non-nicotine pod assemblies and non-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 non-nicotine pod assembly for a non-nicotine e-vaping device may include a pod body and a connector module. The pod body has an u...