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US 12,162,194 B2Granted
Methods, devices, and systems associated with smoking substitute devices
AssigneeImperial Tobacco Limited
InventorsDaniel Fard, Oliver Talbot
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Abstract
A method of forming a consumable for use in a smoking substitute device, the method including: providing a machine readable component which stores information associated with the consumable; overmoulding the machine readable component with an overmoulding material to coat at least part of the machine readable component with the overmoulding material; and including the overmoulded machine readable component in the consumable. Associated devices and systems are also disclosed.
Claims11
A method of forming a consumable for use in a smoking substitute device, the method comprising the steps of:
- overmoulding a machine readable component with an overmoulding material to coat at least part of the machine readable component with the overmoulding material to form an overmoulded machine readable component;
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- assembling together multiple components, including the overmoulded machine readable component, to form the consumable, wherein the overmoulded machine readable component is shaped as an outer casing of the consumable and is used as the outer casing of the consumable.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.