R.j. Reynolds Tobacco Company

Cytyc Corporation

Rai Strategic Holdings, Inc.

Walker MacLaughlin Sloan, Iii

Stephen Benson Sears

Eric Taylor Hunt

Jeffrey A Karg

William Robert Collett

Karen V Taluskie

Yi-Ping Chang

Kristen Dodds Weight

Matthew C Ebbs

Graham P Eacock

Robert Charles Uschold

Lewis T Polk, Jr

Hugh Vartanian

Phillip P Brown

Robert C Uschold

The present disclosure relates to aerosol delivery devices, methods of forming such devices, and elements of such devices. In some embodiments, the present disclosure provides a heating member that can be formed of a heating element conformed to a heater substrate configured as a truncated cone (or similar shape) having a first end of a first size and a second end of greater size. In some embodiments, the disclosure provides methods of forming an aerosol delivery device, which can include providing a shell, providing a heating member formed of a heating element conformed to a substrate, configuring the heating member as a truncated cone (or similar shape) having a first end of a first size and a second end of greater size, and inserting the heating member within the shell.

Heater for an aerosol delivery device and methods of formation thereof

A device for collecting particles, such as human cells, from a fluid sample, and for transferring the collected particles to a receiver, such as a glass microscope slide, provides substantially exact replication of the spatial distribution of the cells on the collection device. The device supports a surface-collecting filter on a tubular rim, with a precise degree of flatness, and fastens the filter in place at a mounting shoulder recessed below the rim. Distortions of the mounting shoulder or of the filter at the mounting shoulder, caused by securing the filter to the shoulder, are confined to the shoulder structure, and do not detract from the desired precision flatness of the filter and rim structure.

Apparatus for collection and transfer of particles and manufacture

Apparatus for collection and transfer of particles

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Berlin, MA, United States of America

Walker MacLaughlin Sloan, Iii