US Patent Issued to Altria Client Services on Sept. 16 for "Non-combustible vaping device" (Virginia, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,045, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Altria Client Services LLC (Richmond, Va.).

"Non-combustible vaping device" was invented by Terry Bache (Richmond, Va.), Ryan Newcomb (Richmond, Va.), Eric A. Hawes (Midlothian, Va.), Dmitriy Kirzhner (Richmond, Va.), Raymond Lau (Richmond, Va.), Danielle Crawford (Richmond, Va.), Dwight D. Williams (Richmond, Va.), William Eugene Rabbitt (Chesterland, Ohio) and Carl Roy Stevens (Stow, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vapor cartridge for a non-combustible vaping device may be configured to receive a flavor cartridge, generate a vapor, and direct the generated vapor through the flavor car...