US Patent Issued to Imperial Tobacco on Aug. 11 for "Apparatus and method for location monitoring of a network-enabled smoking substitute device" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,170, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Imperial Tobacco Ltd. (Bristol, Great Britain).

"Apparatus and method for location monitoring of a network-enabled smoking substitute device" was invented by Daniel Fard (Liverpool, Great Britain) and Oliver Talbot (Liverpool, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a technique that utilizes the ability of a smoking substitute device to wirelessly connect via a wireless personal area network to a portable communication terminal (e.g. mobile phone) to provide a user with location-related information about the smoking substitute device. The technique may be ...