US Patent Issued to RAI Strategic Holdings on Feb. 24 for "Control body for an electronic smoking article" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,557,850, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to RAI Strategic Holdings Inc. (Winston-Salem, N.C.).

"Control body for an electronic smoking article" was invented by Steven L. Worm (Raleigh, N.C.), Michael Ryan Galloway (Winston-Salem, N.C.), Frederic Philippe Ampolini (Winston-Salem, N.C.), Randy Lee McKnight (Lewisville, N.C.) and David Glen Christopherson (Raleigh, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a control body adapted for use in an electronic smoking article. The control body includes a shell and a coupler that is adapted to connect the control body to a cartridge of an electronic smoking article. The co...