ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,840, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to RAI Strategic Holdings Inc. (Winston-Salem, N.C.).
"Method for assembling a cartridge for a smoking article" was invented by Frederic Philippe Ampolini (Winston-Salem, N.C.), Timothy Brian Nestor (Advance, N.C.), Jack Gray Flinchum Jr. (Clemmons, N.C.), Wayne Douglas Brown (Walnut Cove, N.C.), Nicholas Harrison Watson (Westfield, N.C.), Charles Jacob Novak III (Winston-Salem, N.C.), Paul Andrew Brinkley (Winston-Salem, N.C.), James Robert Covino (Haverhill, Mass.), John DePiano (Burlington, Mass.), Edward Louis Dickinson (Leicester, Mass.), Eugene R. Harris (Groton, Mass.), Kevin Edward Keough (Canton, Mass.), David Jay Smith (Needham, Mass....