US Patent Issued to R.J. Reynolds Tobacco on March 3 for "Aerosol delivery device with deflectable or collapsible housing" (North Carolina, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,221, issued on March 3, was assigned to R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Winston-Salem, N.C.).

"Aerosol delivery device with deflectable or collapsible housing" was invented by Jared Aller (Winston-Salem, N.C.), Karen H. Cleckley (Kernersville, N.C.), Thaddeus Jackson (Summerfield, N.C.), Vic Pramono (Campbell, Calif.) and Christina Tapp (Walnut Creek, Calif.).

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. In one implementation, the holder comprises a main body that includes a collapsible section configured to collapse in an axial direction into an ejecting positio...