ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 12 -- Altria Client Services, Richmond, Virginia, has been assigned a patent (No. 10,966,459, initially filed Sept. 22, 2014) developed by four co-inventors for an "electrically heated smoking system." The co-inventors are Felix Fernando, Wokingham, United Kingdom, Fredrik Stahle, Vevey, Switzerland, Jean-Pierre Cordey, Cheseaux, Switzerland, and Laurent Manca, Belmont-sur-Lausanne, Switzerland.

The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.go . . .