ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,616,247, issued on May 5, was assigned to CHANGZHOU PATENT ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Changzhou City, China).

"Aerosol generating device and atomizer with improved airflow and leakage prevention" was invented by Weihua Qiu (Changzhou City, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An atomizer includes an atomizing housing and an atomizing base. The lower end of the atomizing housing is connected to the upper end of the atomizing base. A communicating hole is provided at the bottom of the atomizing housing to allow an atomizing chamber in the atomizing housing to communicate with the inner cavity of the atomizing base. A partition plate is ...