ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,208, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to RAI Strategic Holdings Inc. (Winston-Salem, N.C.).

"Fluidic control for an aerosol delivery device" was invented by Rajesh Sur (Winston Salem, N.C.), Stephen B. Sears (Winston-Salem, N.C.) and Eric T. Hunt (Winston-Salem, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aerosol delivery device is provided that includes a reservoir configured to retain aerosol precursor composition, a valve configured to control a flow of aerosol precursor composition from the reservoir to a heating element controllable to activate and vaporize components of the aerosol precursor composition, a sensor configured to measure ...