Patents Assigned to NICOVENTURES TRADING LIMITED
  • Patent number: 11800898
    Abstract: Described is an aerosol provision device for generating aerosol from a plurality of aerosol generating areas each configured to receive an aerosol precursor material, wherein the aerosol provision device includes a power source for providing power to a first atomizing element configured to generate aerosol from a first aerosol precursor material present in the first aerosol generating area and to a second atomizing element configured to generate aerosol from a second aerosol precursor material present in a second aerosol generating area; and power distribution circuitry configured to distribute power between the first and second atomizing elements based on at least one parameter of aerosol precursor material currently present in the first and second aerosol generating areas respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Nicoventures Trading Limited
    Inventors: Connor Bruton, Colin Dickens, Patrick Moloney, Anton Korus, Alfred Vincent Spencer, Kevin David Blick, Lisa Harvey, Anna Azzopardi
  • Patent number: 11805574
    Abstract: A method for obtaining a heating element for an electronic vapor provision system, the method including providing a sheet of electrically conductive porous material, directing light onto at least a portion of the sheet, detecting an amount of the light transmitted through the portion of the sheet, comparing the amount of light detected to a range of light transmission values known to correspond to a predetermined range of electrical resistance values required for the portion, and selecting the portion of the sheet for use as a heating element if the amount of detected light lies within the range of light transmission values, and otherwise rejecting the portion of the sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Nicoventures Trading Limited
    Inventor: Howard Rothwell
  • Patent number: 11793230
    Abstract: The disclosure provides products configured for oral use, the products including compositions comprising a filler component including negatively charged groups and an active ingredient including positively charged groups. The active ingredient can be retained by the filler component at least in part through bonding between the negatively charged groups and the positively charged groups such that active ingredient may be release from the product when positioned within an oral cavity of a consumer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: NICOVENTURES TRADING LIMITED
    Inventors: Anthony Richard Gerardi, Dwayne William Beeson, Ronald K. Hutchens, Christopher Keller, Thomas H. Poole, Andries Don Sebastian, Frank Kelley St. Charles
  • Patent number: 11800605
    Abstract: Circuitry for a plurality of induction elements for an aerosol generating device is disclosed. Each of the plurality of induction elements is for inductive heating of one or more susceptors for heating aerosol generating material in use. The circuitry includes a plurality of driver arrangements, each one of the plurality of driver arrangements being arranged to provide, from an input direct current, an alternating current to a respective one of the plurality of induction elements in use. Each driver arrangement includes one or more first transistors each controllable by a switching potential to substantially allow current to pass therethrough in use. The circuitry also includes a converter arranged to step up an input potential to provide the switching potential in use, the converter being common to each of the plurality of driver arrangements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Nicoventures Trading Limited
    Inventors: Julian White, Martin Horrod
  • Patent number: 11793955
    Abstract: A vapor provision system includes a reservoir defining a storage volume to hold aerosolizable substrate material; and an aerosolizable substrate material detection system including an optical source located externally of the reservoir and operable to emit light into the storage volume; an optical detector located externally of the reservoir and operable to detect light emitted by the optical source that has traversed an optical path through the storage volume; and a controller configured to determine a characteristic of light detected by the optical detector and deduce information regarding a depth of aerosolizable substrate material in the storage volume from the determined characteristic of the light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Nicoventures Trading Limited
    Inventors: Kenny Otiaba, David Leadley
  • Patent number: 11779718
    Abstract: An aerosol forming component for volatilizing a liquid in an aerosol delivery device is disclosed. The aerosol forming component includes a first aerosol-forming member configured to be heated up to a first operating temperature and thereafter to a second higher operating temperature, and a second aerosol-forming member configured to be heated up to at least the first operating temperature as the first aerosol-forming member reaches the second higher operating temperature so that liquid volatilized from the two aerosol-forming members mix with one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Nicoventures Trading Limited
    Inventors: Helmut Buchberger, Colin John Dickens, Rory Fraser
  • Patent number: 11766067
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein include a ground tobacco composition, wherein at least 90% by weight of the tobacco in the composition has a particle size in the range of about 200 ?m to about 5 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Nicoventures Trading Limited
    Inventors: Helena Digard, Marina Sintyureva, Francis Cheung, Geoff Foss-Smith
  • Patent number: 11765795
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method and apparatus for use with an RLC resonance circuit for inductive heating of a susceptor of an aerosol generating device. The apparatus is arranged to determine a resonant frequency of the RLC resonance circuit; and determine, based on the determined resonant frequency, a first frequency for the RLC resonance circuit for causing the susceptor to be inductively heated, the first frequency being above or below the determined resonant frequency. The apparatus may be arranged to control a drive frequency of the RLC resonance circuit to be at the determined first frequency in order to heat the susceptor. Also disclosed is an aerosol generating device including the apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Nicoventures Trading Limited
    Inventors: Walid Abi Aoun, Gary Fallon, Julian Darryn White, Martin Daniel Horrod
  • Patent number: 11752284
    Abstract: An aerosol delivery device including: control circuitry for controlling an operating mode of the device; a motion sensor arranged to detect motion of the device and to output corresponding motion detection signals to the control circuitry; and an airflow sensor arranged to detect a flow of air in the device and to output corresponding airflow detection signals to the control circuitry; wherein the control circuitry is configured to determine from the motion detection signals when there is a tapping event corresponding to the device being tapped by a user and to determine from the airflow detection signals when there is an airflow event, and wherein the control circuitry is configured to control the device to switch from a first operating mode to a second operating mode in response to the detection of a predefined sequence of events comprising at least one tapping event and at least one airflow event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Nicoventures Trading Limited
    Inventors: Colin Dickens, Rory Fraser
  • Patent number: 11744964
    Abstract: A sub-assembly for an electronic vapor provision system includes a source of liquid for vaporization; and a vaporizer for vaporizing a portion of the liquid for inhalation by a user, the vaporizer including a wick component; and an electrical heating element embedded in the wick component. The wick component includes a sheet of a porous electrically-insulating material and is arranged to wick liquid from the source of liquid to a surface of the wick component adjacent to the embedded electrical heating element for vaporization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Nicoventures Trading Limited
    Inventor: Rory Fraser
  • Patent number: 11723396
    Abstract: A cartridge is provided for use with an apparatus for heating smokable material. The cartridge has a housing defining a chamber and a pouch containing smokable material. The pouch is located within the chamber. At least part of the pouch is made of porous material for permitting aerosol or volatilized material generated within the pouch to pass out of the pouch from within the pouch. There is also provided a pouch having a first wall and a second wall. The pouch contains smokable material between the first wall and the second wall. A method of manufacturing a pouch is also disclosed in which the first wall is attached to the second wall with smokable material between the first wall and second wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Nicoventures Trading Limited
    Inventors: Joseph Sutton, Dominic Woodcock, Darren Seymour, Hitesh Vallabh, Neil Litten, Harpal Singh, David Russell, Ahmad Bitar
  • Patent number: 11723405
    Abstract: A liquid storage tank of an electronic vapor provision device includes one or more boundary walls defining an interior volume of the tank for accommodating source liquid to be vaporized in the electronic vapor provision device; and one or more baffles, each baffle protruding from an inner surface of the boundary wall into the interior volume to impede a flow of source liquid between portions of the interior volume between which the baffle is located. The tank may be included in an electronic vapor provision device or in a component for an electronic vapor provision device such as a cartomizer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Nicoventures Trading Limited
    Inventors: Kenny Otiaba, David Leadley
  • Patent number: 11712059
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a product including a plurality of beads configured for oral use, the plurality of beads containing bleached plant material, a filler, a binder, water, and at least one flavoring agent, active ingredient, or a combination thereof. Further provided are pouched products including the plurality of beads, and a process for preparing the beads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Nicoventures Trading Limited
    Inventor: David Neil McClanahan
  • Patent number: D998234
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Nicoventures Trading Limited
    Inventors: Ben Harris, Mark Richards, Craig Glass, Anthony Cruice
  • Patent number: D998877
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Nicoventures Trading Limited
    Inventors: Matthew Peter Tidnam, Jay Lee, Ken Kim, Marcus Hartley
  • Patent number: D998878
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Nicoventures Trading Limited
    Inventors: Matthew Peter Tidnam, Jay Lee, Ken Kim, Marcus Hartley
  • Patent number: D999439
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Nicoventures Trading Limited
    Inventors: Ben Harris, Mark Richards, Craig Glass, Anthony Cruice
  • Patent number: D999441
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Nicoventures Trading Limited
    Inventors: Matthew Peter Tidnam, Jay Lee, Ken Kim, Marcus Hartley
  • Patent number: D999978
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Nicoventures Trading Limited
    Inventors: Ben Harris, Mark Richards, Craig Glass, Anthony Cruice
  • Patent number: D1002922
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Nicoventures Trading Limited
    Inventors: Anthony Cruice, Ainsley Cox