US Patent Issued to R.J. Reynolds Tobacco on March 3 for "Aerosol delivery device with automatic consumable loading and ejecting" (North Carolina, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,220, issued on March 3, was assigned to R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Winston-Salem, N.C.).

"Aerosol delivery device with automatic consumable loading and ejecting" was invented by Jared Aller (Winston-Salem, N.C.), Karen H. Cleckley (Kernersville, N.C.), Thaddeus Jackson (Summerfield, N.C.), Steven M. Schennum (Plainfield, Ill.), Daniel W. Rennecker (Naperville, Ill.) and Matthew J. Nettenstrom (Bartlett, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to a holder for use with a removable substrate cartridge having an ignitable heat source. In one implementation, the holder defines an outlet, a receiving chamber ...