US Patent Issued to Imperial Tobacco on July 14 for "Smoking substitute device" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,677,877, issued on July 14, was assigned to Imperial Tobacco Ltd. (Bristol, Great Britain).

"Smoking substitute device" was invented by Nikhil Aggarwal (Liverpool, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A smoking substitute device is described. The device includes an electrically conductive porous wick heater. At least one electrical contact region of the wick heater is exposed from the smoking substitute device for direct engagement with a respective at least one electrical contact of a main device. The main device includes a power supply for supplying electrical energy to the at least electrical contact region via the at least on...