US Patent Issued to RAI Strategic Holdings on July 14 for "Sleeve for smoking article" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,677,884, issued on July 14, was assigned to RAI Strategic Holdings Inc. (Winston-Salem, N.C.).

"Sleeve for smoking article" was invented by Misti Jones Carmichael (Clemmons, N.C.) and Stephen Benson Sears (Siler City, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides temperature regulating sleeves for use with smoking articles. In some embodiments, temperature regulating sleeves may include various components including an outer shell, an inner chamber at least partially defined within the outer shell and configured to receive at least a portion of a smoking article, an opening through the outer shell configured for egre...