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US 12,696,931 B2

Smoking substitute system

US 12,696,931 B2 is a granted patent from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), dated 2026-08-04. Applicant: Imperial Tobacco Limited. Its PDF downloads from this page without an account, up to 5 a day.

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Applicant
Imperial Tobacco Limited
Inventors
Adam RUSSELL; Jason ROEBUCK
Publication date
2026-08-04
Filing date
2022-03-30
Document type
B2 Granted patent
Also written as
US 12,696,931 B2 · US12696931 · 12696931

Abstract

A smoking substitute system and device comprising a heater apparatus for a heat not burn smoking substitute device, the heater apparatus comprising a solid blade-type heating element adapted for insertion into a consumable for the heat not burn smoking device, wherein the heating element has a multi-sectional cross section comprising at least two sections, each of the sections having a surface normal vector with a direction; and wherein the directions of the surface normal vectors are non-parallel.

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