An NC-local holding company RAI Strategic Holdings, Inc. had three patent applications (US Pub. Nos. 20200154786, ‘787, ‘788) published this week dealing with a vaporizer device that can be used with cannabis compositions. RAI Strategic Holdings is a subsidiary of Reynolds American, an American tobacco company, which is owned by British American Tobacco, headquartered in London, England. 

One application deals with controlling the function of the vaporizer based on cartridge positioning. The second application is for power control of the vaporizer device while the third is for temperature control. 

Vaporizer devices is one of the hottest areas of patent filings in the cannabis sector with John Cameron’s Lunatech, LLC leading the way. Take a closer look at the IP-dense zone of cannabis vaporizers with Magic Number’s Cannabis Patent Forecast®. Patents and patent applications dealing with vaporizers are neatly categorized by year and document length under the category ‘Devices - Vaporizers’.