US Patent Issued to RAI Strategic Holdings on Oct. 6 for "Smoking article for identifying an attribute of an aerosol-generating element for adaptive power output and an associated method" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,751,493, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to RAI Strategic Holdings Inc. (Winston-Salem, N.C.).

"Smoking article for identifying an attribute of an aerosol-generating element for adaptive power output and an associated method" was invented by Alfred Charles Bless (Asheboro, N.C.), Rajesh Sur (Winston-Salem, N.C.), Stephen Benson Sears (Siler City, N.C.) and Tim Williams (Walnut Cove, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A smoking article and a method for making a smoking article are provided. The smoking article includes an aerosol-generating element configured to produce an aerosol in response to heat, a housing defining a cavity configured...