ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,711, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Altria Client Services LLC (Richmond, Va.).
"Vaping device and method for aerosol-generation" was invented by Jerome Christian Courbat (Neuchatel, Switzerland) and Oleg Mironov (Cudrefin, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A smoking device for aerosol-generation may comprise a device housing, a surface acoustic wave-atomizer (SAW-atomizer), a supply element, and a control system. The device housing may include a storage portion for an aerosol-forming substrate. The SAW-atomizer may include an atomization region, a first transducer, and/or a second transducer. The first transducer is con...