Patents by Inventor Mark A. Potter

Mark A. Potter has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11957169
    Abstract: Vapor provision apparatus including a reservoir housing defining a reservoir for liquid, a liquid transport element for transporting liquid from the reservoir to a vaporizer for vaporization and a channel for the liquid transport element, wherein the channel has a sidewall at least partly defined by a section of the reservoir housing; wherein the liquid transport element comprises a first portion arranged to deliver liquid to the vaporizer and a second portion extending along the channel, wherein the channel has a cross-section that corresponds with the cross-section of the second portion of the liquid transport element in the channel, and wherein the section of the reservoir housing that defines the sidewall of the channel has one or more openings to provide fluid communication between the liquid transport element in the channel and liquid in the reservoir.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: NICOVENTURES TRADING LIMITED
    Inventors: Mark Potter, Wade Tipton, William Harris, Christopher Rowe, James Davies, James Boonzaier, Conor Devine
  • Patent number: 11944743
    Abstract: A vapor provision system includes an inhalation sensor; an input button; control circuitry and a vaporizer for generating vapor from a vapor precursor material when provided with power from the control circuitry, wherein the control circuitry is configured to provide power for the vaporizer to generate vapor both in response to determining from signaling received from the inhalation sensor that a user is inhaling on the vapor provision system and in response to determining from signaling received from the input button that a user has activated the input button for at least a threshold amount of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: NICOVENTURES TRADING LIMITED
    Inventors: Mark Potter, Ugurhan Yilmaz
  • Patent number: 11937646
    Abstract: A vapor provision system including a vapor generation chamber, a reservoir containing liquid, a vaporizer located in the vapor generation chamber and a liquid transport element arranged to transport liquid from the reservoir through an opening in a wall of the vapor generation chamber to the vaporizer, wherein the liquid transport element in the vapor generation chamber has a cross-sectional area which is greater than that of the opening, and wherein the liquid transport element in the vapor generation chamber abuts the wall surrounding the opening to help prevent leakage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: NICOVENTURES TRADING LIMITED
    Inventors: Mark Potter, Wade Tipton, William Harris, Christopher Rowe, James Davies, James Boonzaier, Conor Devine
  • Patent number: 11937636
    Abstract: A vapor provision system includes a cartridge part configured for use with a reusable part and a sealing element, the cartridge part including a cartridge housing, a reservoir formed within the cartridge housing for containing liquid for vaporization; a vaporizer disposed within an air path forming a vaporization chamber within the cartridge housing; and a liquid transport element arranged within a channel from the reservoir to the vaporization chamber to transport liquid from the reservoir to the vaporizer for vaporization, the liquid transport element being formed with the vaporizer in the vaporization chamber to convey the vapor in use when air is drawn by a user through the air path, and the sealing element comprises a plurality of fingers projecting outwardly opposite one another from one end of a stalk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: NICOVENTURES TRADING LIMITED
    Inventor: Mark Potter
  • Patent number: 11937637
    Abstract: An aerosol source for a vapor provision system includes a vapor-generating element; a reservoir for holding source liquid, the reservoir being bounded by a wall having an opening therein; and a liquid transport element including a first portion arranged to receive liquid from the reservoir via the opening, a second portion peripheral to the first portion, and a third portion arranged to deliver liquid from the first portion to the vapor-generating element; wherein at least part of the second portion is compressed against a section of the wall around the opening, in use, to provide a sealing effect around at least part of the first portion to promote movement of liquid towards the vapor-generating element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: NICOVENTURES TRADING LIMITED
    Inventors: Mark Potter, Wade Tipton, William Harris, Christopher Rowe, James Davies, James Boonzaier, Conor Devine
  • Patent number: 11930848
    Abstract: There is described an aerosol provision article for use in an aerosol provision system for generating an inhalable medium including an aerosol when a user draws on the aerosol provision system. The aerosol provision article includes at least a first heating element and a second heating element for heating liquid from a liquid reservoir to generate a flow of aerosol; and a region for receiving a substance which, in use, the flow of aerosol passes through and heats the substance before exiting the aerosol provision article, which substance modifies a property of the flow of aerosol. The at least a first heating element and a second heating element are positioned so as to additionally heat the substance in the region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: NICOVENTURES TRADING LIMITED
    Inventors: Ugurhan Yilmaz, Mark Potter
  • Patent number: 11930561
    Abstract: An aerosol provision device includes a power source, at least one heating element for generating aerosol, and temperature monitoring means configured to monitor the temperature of the heating element. In an operational configuration the device is configured to control the supply of power to the heating element to: supply power to the heating element to initially raise the temperature of the heating element to a first threshold temperature; remove power supplied to the heating element when the temperature monitoring means detects that the temperature of the heating element is at the first threshold temperature, such that the temperature of the heating element decreases to a second threshold temperature; supply power to the heating element when the temperature monitoring means detects that the temperature of the heating element has reduced to the second threshold temperature, such that the temperature of the heating element increases towards the first threshold temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: NICOVENTURES TRADING LIMITED
    Inventor: Mark Potter
  • Patent number: 11623053
    Abstract: A component for an aerosol-generating apparatus includes a liquid container for containing liquid, a wick arranged to draw liquid from the liquid container in use; and a heater arranged to volatilize liquid drawn from the liquid container by the wick in use to generate an aerosol in use. The heater defines a channel for receiving a material element for modifying a property of the aerosol generated in use. The component is arranged such that, in use, the material element received in the channel in use modifies a property of the aerosol generated in use thereby to generate a modified aerosol for inhalation by a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Nicoventures Trading Limited
    Inventors: Ugurhan Yilmaz, Mark Potter
  • Patent number: 11596751
    Abstract: A cartridge for an aerosol provision device includes a chamber for containing a liquid from which a flow of aerosol for inhalation by a user is generated. The cartridge includes a first connector arrangement for releasably connecting the cartridge to a body portion of the device, and a second connector arrangement for releasably connecting to a container for a material. In use, aerosol flows through the material in the container before being inhaled by the user. The first connector arrangement is configurable in a locked configuration and in an un-locked configuration, and the first connector arrangement must be configured in the un-locked configuration for the cartridge to be removeable from the body portion. The first connector arrangement is configurable from the locked configuration to the un-locked configuration while the cartridge remains stationary with respect to the body portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Nicoventures Trading Limited
    Inventor: Mark Potter
  • Patent number: 11583648
    Abstract: A heater for use in an aerosol generating device is disclosed. The heater includes a heating element comprising a coil. The coil has at least two coiled regions and one non-coiled region. The heater includes a pair of wicks arranged to feed e-liquid to the heating element from different directions. A device for generating an inhalable medium including a heater for volatilizing liquid is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Nicoventures Trading Limited
    Inventors: Mark Potter, Ugurhan Yilmaz, Geoffrey Foss-Smith
  • Publication number: 20220312838
    Abstract: An apparatus for generating an inhalable medium includes a receptacle for a flavor material for imparting a flavor to inhalable medium generated by the apparatus, the receptacle including a mouthpiece part, a side wall part and an outlet wall part in the mouthpiece part with a plurality of openings for airflow, wherein the mouthpiece part, the side wall part and the outlet wall part are integrally formed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2020
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Mark POTTER, Daniel BALL
  • Patent number: 11444946
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention include a server system with a processor, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium in data communication with the processor that can store and exchange content data including or representing content derived or received from a server of a social network and/or a user. An application programming interface includes steps executable by the processor to upload, download, or enable access of the content data. A content rights synchronization process is configured to enable the user to assign and/or control a rights access to any of the content data associated with the user. Further, a content engine can monitor for and save the content data as received content when identified, accessed, and/or received by the network. The content metadata and/or the content data is stored for recall in a centralized library database, where rights access is assigned by the at least one user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: VYDIA, INC.
    Inventors: Roy Christopher LaManna, Mark Ivan Allen, Stephen Mark Potter, Nicholas Edward Bobryk, Murty V. Korada, Daniel Robert Vassallo, Brittany Lynn Jacobs, Matthew Thomas Vincek, Ning Ding, Paul Michael Arevalo Santos, Tyler Alexander Geerdts, Bhavani Veeraputhiran Saminathan Ramasamy, Ricardo Saporta
  • Publication number: 20220273045
    Abstract: Disclosed is an aerosol provision system comprising an aerosol precursor material part comprising an aerosol precursor material to be vaporized; an aerosol modifying material part comprising an aerosol modifying material for modifying at least one property of a generated aerosol, wherein the aerosol modifying material part comprises a lower surface fluidly coupled to an aerosol pathway; and a heater for generating aerosol from the aerosol precursor material, the heater arranged in the aerosol pathway such that in normal use aerosol generated by the heater passes along the aerosol pathway to the aerosol modifying material part, wherein either the power supplied to the heater is set to generate a predetermined mass of aerosol per puff and the predetermined mass of aerosol generated per puff is set such that energy received at the lower surface of the aerosol modifying material part from the mass of aerosol causes the temperature of the lower surface of the aerosol modifying material part to be raised to between
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2019
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Inventors: Simon POYNTON, Mark POTTER, Ugurhan YILMAZ, Shixiang CHEN
  • Publication number: 20220248752
    Abstract: An apparatus for generating an inhalable medium includes a receptacle for a flavor material for imparting a flavor to inhalable medium generated by the apparatus, the receptacle including a wall part for retaining the flavor material, the wall part including a plurality of openings for airflow and a non-planar region, wherein the plurality of openings are arranged in the non-planar region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2020
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Inventors: Mark POTTER, Daniel BALL
  • Publication number: 20220232891
    Abstract: An apparatus for generating an inhalable medium includes a receptacle for a flavor material for imparting a flavor to inhalable medium generated by the apparatus, wherein the receptacle includes a side wall part, an outlet wall part and an inlet wall part, wherein the side wall part defines a cavity for the flavor material and the inlet wall part and the outlet wall part each include a plurality of openings to allow airflow through the cavity, and wherein the inlet wall part and outlet wall part are mounted to the side wall part so as to compress the flavor material in the cavity between the inlet wall part and the outlet wall part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2020
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Inventors: Mark Potter, Daniel Ball
  • Patent number: 11388931
    Abstract: A vapor provision system includes a reservoir containing liquid for vaporization; a vaporizer; a liquid transport element arranged to transport liquid from the reservoir to the vaporizer for vaporization, wherein the liquid transport element extends into the reservoir through an opening in a wall of the reservoir; and a collar mounted around the liquid transport element where it passes through the opening in the wall of the reservoir.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: Nicoventures Trading Limited
    Inventors: Mark Potter, Wade Tipton, William Harris, Christopher Rowe, Conor Devine, James Davies, James Boonzaier
  • Publication number: 20220183385
    Abstract: Described is an aerosol provision system for generating aerosol from an aerosol precursor material, the system comprising a consumable part for generating aerosol that is to be provided to a user of the aerosol provision system; a reusable part configured to enable generation of aerosol from an aerosol precursor; control circuitry configured to monitor usage of the aerosol provision system; and an alert unit configured to output an alert signal, wherein the control circuitry is configured to determine when a predetermined usage condition has been met, and in response to determining that the predetermined usage condition has been met, to cause the alert unit to output an alert signal, wherein the alert unit is configured to cease output of the alert signal in response to a user input. Also described is a method of generating an alert signal for use with an aerosol provision system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2020
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Inventors: Ugurhan YILMAZ, Shixiang CHEN, Mark POTTER, Simon POYNTON, Geoff FOSS-SMITH
  • Publication number: 20220125106
    Abstract: A component for a vapor provision system includes a boundary wall separating a reservoir for holding a fluid from a chamber for housing a vapor vapour generator, the boundary wall including comprising two or more adjacent rigid bodies sealed to one another; and a tubular aperture in the boundary wall providing a fluid transport path from the reservoir to the vapor vapour generator; wherein the aperture is defined between the adjacent rigid bodies, the rigid bodies enclosing a perimeter of the aperture along at least part of aperture's length.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Inventors: Mark POTTER, Richard HAINES
  • Publication number: 20220125117
    Abstract: An aerosol provision system comprising an air path extending from a vapor generating region in which vapor is generated for user inhalation to a flavor imparting region for receiving a flavor imparting medium for imparting a flavor to the vapor; wherein a first cross-sectional area of the air path in the vapor generating region is smaller than a second cross-sectional area of the air path where it enters the flavor imparting region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2020
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Inventor: Mark POTTER
  • Publication number: 20220007719
    Abstract: A vapor provision system includes a cartridge part configured for use with a reusable part and a sealing element, the cartridge part including a cartridge housing, a reservoir formed within the cartridge housing for containing liquid for vaporization; a vaporizer disposed within an air path forming a vaporization chamber within the cartridge housing; and a liquid transport element arranged within a channel from the reservoir to the vaporization chamber to transport liquid from the reservoir to the vaporizer for vaporization, the liquid transport element being formed with the vaporizer in the vaporization chamber to convey the vapor in use when air is drawn by a user through the air path, and the sealing element comprises a plurality of fingers projecting outwardly opposite one another from one end of a stalk.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2019
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Inventor: Mark POTTER