US Patent Issued to Altria Client Services on May 26 for "Nicotine electronic vaping devices having dryness detection and auto shutdown" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,635,735, issued on May 26, was assigned to Altria Client Services LLC (Richmond, Va.).

"Nicotine electronic vaping devices having dryness detection and auto shutdown" was invented by Niall Gallagher (Richmond, Va.), Terrance Theodore Bache (Richmond, Va.), Rangaraj S. Sundar (Richmond, Va.), Jarrett Keen (Richmond, Va.), Raymond W. Lau (Richmond, Va.) and Eric Hawes (Midlothian, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The nicotine electronic vaping device includes a nicotine reservoir, a heater and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to: determine a plurality of resistance values for the heater during a time window; ca...