US Patent Issued to IMPERIAL TOBACCO on Aug. 4 for "Substitute smoking device having separate display elements and system using the same" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,937, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to IMPERIAL TOBACCO Ltd. (Bristol, Great Britain).

"Substitute smoking device having separate display elements and system using the same" was invented by Kate Ferrie (Bristol, Great Britain), Edward Ross Shenton (Bristol, Great Britain), Jonathan Stephen Marchbank (Bristol, Great Britain), Peter Lomas (Bristol, Great Britain) and Tom Sudlow (Bristol, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to the field of smoking tobacco. In particular, the present disclosure relates to smoking substitute systems and particularly, although not exclusively, to a heat-not-burn (HNB)...