US Patent Issued to Altria Client Services on Oct. 20 for "Non-nicotine electronic vaping devices having auto shutdown" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,765,608, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Altria Client Services LLC (Richmond, Va.).

"Non-nicotine electronic vaping devices having 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: "A non-nicotine pod assembly includes a non-nicotine reservoir to hold non-nicotine pre-vapor formulation, and a heater configured to vaporize non-nicotine pre-vapor formulation drawn from the non-nicotine reservoir. A device body is configured t...