ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,176, issued on April 14, was assigned to RAI Strategic Holdings Inc. (Winston-Salem, N.C.).

"Aerosol delivery device including a wirelessly-heated atomizer and related method" was invented by Michael F. Davis (Clemmons, N.C.), Stephen Benson Sears (Siler City, N.C.), Carolyn Rierson Carpenter (Lewisville, N.C.), Melissa Ann Clark (Mocksville, N.C.), Shierina A. Fareed (Winston-Salem, N.C.), Denise Fox (Winston-Salem, N.C.), Tao Jin (Clemmons, N.C.), Percy D. Phillips (Pfafftown, N.C.), Alfred Charles Bless (Asheboro, N.C.), Karen V. Taluskie (Winston-Salem, N.C.), Brian Keith Nordskog (Winston-Salem, N.C.), David T. Szabo (Durham, N.C.) and Josef Strasser Jr. (Greensboro, N.C.)....