# US 11,992,605 B2 · Non-combustible vaping device > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 11,992,605 B2 - Document ID: US11992605B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 17/494,102 - Filed: 2021-10-05 - Published: 2022-01-27 - Granted: 2024-05-28 - Earliest claimed: 2017-06-23 - Assignees: Altria Client Services LLC - Applicants: Altria Client Services LLC - Inventors: Terry Bache; Ryan Newcomb; Eric A. Hawes; Dmitriy Kirzhner; Raymond Lau; Danielle Crawford; Dwight D. Williams; William Eugene Rabbitt; Carl Roy Stevens - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US11992605B2 ## CPC - A61M 11/042: {electrical} - A24F 40/30: Devices using two or more structurally separated inhalable precursors, e.g. using two liquid precursors in two cartridges - A24F 40/42: Cartridges or containers for inhalable precursors - A24F 40/53: Monitoring, e.g. fault detection - G01N 27/041: {of a solid body} - H01R 13/2421: {using coil springs} - H05B 1/0244: {Heating of fluids (H05B1/0247 takes precedence)} - A24F 15/015: with means for refilling of liquid inhalable precursors - A24F 40/10: Devices using liquid inhalable precursors - A24F 40/20: Devices using solid inhalable precursors - A24F 40/485: Valves; Apertures - A24F 40/60: Devices with integrated user interfaces - A61M 2016/0024: {with an on-off output signal, e.g. from a switch} - A61M 2205/8206: battery-operated - A61M: DEVICES FOR INTRODUCING MEDIA INTO, OR ONTO, THE BODY (introducing media into or onto the bodies of animals A61D7/00; means for inserting tampons A61F13/26; devices for administering food or medicines orally A61J; containers for collecting, storing or administering blood or medical fluids A61J1/05); DEVICES FOR TRANSDUCING BODY MEDIA OR FOR TAKING MEDIA FROM THE BODY (surgery A61B; chemical aspects of surgical articles A61L); DEVICES FOR PRODUCING OR ENDING SLEEP OR STUPOR {(Electrotherapy, e.g. producing anaesthesia by the use of alternating or intermittent currents A61N1/36021)} - A24F: SMOKERS' REQUISITES; MATCH BOXES; SIMULATED SMOKING DEVICES (inhaling appliances for medical purposes, shaped like cigars, cigarettes or pipes A61M15/06) - G01N: INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIR CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES (measuring or testing apparatus or processes other than immunoassay, involving enzymes or microorganisms C12M, C12Q) - H01R: ELECTRICALLY-CONDUCTIVE CONNECTIONS; STRUCTURAL ASSOCIATIONS OF A PLURALITY OF MUTUALLY-INSULATED ELECTRICAL CONNECTING ELEMENTS; COUPLING DEVICES; CURRENT COLLECTORS - H05B: ELECTRIC HEATING; ELECTRIC LIGHT SOURCES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENTS FOR ELECTRIC LIGHT SOURCES, IN GENERAL ## Abstract A vapor cartridge for a non-combustible vaping device may be configured to receive a flavor cartridge, generate a vapor, and direct the generated vapor through the flavor cartridge to provide a flavored vapor. The flavor cartridge may include an instance of electrically conductive material extending at least partially around the flavor cartridge. The vapor cartridge may include an authentication assembly including a set of electrically conductive instruments may independently and directly contact the instance of electrically conductive material of the flavor cartridge inserted into the vapor cartridge, such that the electrically conductive instruments are electrically connected to each other through the instance of electrically conductive material of the flavor cartridge. The vapor cartridge may be coupled with a base that includes a control circuitry configured to control vapor generation by the vapor generator, based on the electrically conductive instruments being electrically connected to each other through the flavor cartridge. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A flavor cartridge configured to be used in a non-combustible vaping device, the flavor cartridge comprising: a flavor material extending along a longitudinal axis of the flavor cartridge; an outer shell at least partially enclosing the flavor material, the outer shell extending coaxially with the longitudinal axis of the flavor cartridge; and an instance of electrically conductive material between the flavor material and the outer shell, the instance of electrically conductive material extending at least partially around the flavor cartridge, wherein the flavor material and the outer shell collectively isolate the instance of electrically conductive material from being exposed to an exterior of the flavor cartridge. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The flavor cartridge of claim 1, wherein the flavor material includes a flavor housing and a flavor matrix within the flavor housing, the flavor housing further including a plurality of perforations configured to direct air to flow in fluid communication with the flavor matrix. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The flavor cartridge of claim 1, further comprising: an outlet-end insert at an outlet end of the flavor cartridge and a tip-end opening at a tip end of the flavor cartridge, the flavor cartridge configured to direct air drawn through the tip-end opening to flow in fluid communication with the flavor material and through the outlet-end insert of the flavor cartridge. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The flavor cartridge of claim 1, wherein the flavor material is a tobacco rod including a tobacco material. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The flavor cartridge of claim 1, wherein the instance of electrically conductive material is a band extending at least partially around an entirety of the flavor material. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The flavor cartridge of claim 1, wherein the instance of electrically conductive material is a cylindrical element extending coaxially with the longitudinal axis of the flavor cartridge. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The flavor cartridge of claim 1, wherein the instance of electrically conductive material is a cylindrical disc at an end of the flavor material. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The flavor cartridge of claim 1, wherein the instance of electrically conductive material includes at least one of, a conductive ink, and aluminum. ### Claim 9 (depends on 1) The flavor cartridge of claim 1, wherein the outer shell includes paper, plastic, or a combination of paper and plastic. ### Claim 10 (depends on 8) The flavor cartridge of claim 8, wherein the instance of electrically conductive material includes the conductive ink.