US Patent Issued to R.J. Reynolds Tobacco on Sept. 22 for "Conductive aerosol generating composite substrate for aerosol source member" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,266, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Winston-Salem, N.C.).

"Conductive aerosol generating composite substrate for aerosol source member" was invented by Andries D. Sebastian (Winston-Salem, N.C.), Stephen B. Sears (Siler City, N.C.), Billy T. Conner (Clemmons, N.C.), Justin William Gage (Greensboro, N.C.) and Luis Monsalud (Kernersville, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides an aerosol source member, a substrate portion, and a method of creating a substrate portion for use in an aerosol source member. In an example implementation, a substrate portion of the present disclos...