ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,660,854, issued on June 23, was assigned to Japan Tobacco Inc (Tokyo).

"Cartridge and non-combustion type suction device" was invented by Kentaro Matsuda (Tokyo) and Manabu Yamada (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cartridge used in a non-combustion type suction device having a suction port includes a tank having a liquid storage in which a liquid is storable; a heater to which the liquid in the liquid storage is supplied and configured to heat the liquid; and an atomizing container configured to support the heater, in which the atomizing container includes a liquid holder configured to hold the liquid and provided apart from the he...