ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,653,241, issued on June 16, was assigned to COENS TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Minneapolis).

"Aerosol device and method for moving consumable" was invented by Alexander Chinhak Chong (St. Louis Park, Minn.), William Bartkowski (Edina, Minn.), David Crosby (Watsonville, Calif.), David Wayne (Aptos, Calif.) and Gerard Shudall (Liverpool, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for converting a consumable into an aerosol with high heat without burning the consumable using a moving aerosol-producing substrate to incrementally heat portions of the substrate to release the consumable from various portions of the substrate. The aerosol-prod...