US Patent Issued to Imperial Tobacco on June 16 for "Smoking substitute consumable having extruded cannabinoid-containing plant material" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,653,234, issued on June 16, was assigned to Imperial Tobacco Ltd. (Bristol, Great Britain).

"Smoking substitute consumable having extruded cannabinoid-containing plant material" was invented by David Newns (Liverpool, Great Britain), Chris Lord (Liverpool, Great Britain) and Kate Ferrie (Liverpool, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to an aerosol-forming article (e.g., a heat-not-burn consumable) comprising an aerosol-forming substrate and one or more of a hollow bore element, a filter element, a spacer element and/or an aerosol-cooling element downstream of the substrate wherein the substrate com...