ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,929, issued on April 21, was assigned to Imperial Tobacco Ltd. (Bristol, Great Britain).
"Smoking substitute apparatus" was invented by Benjamin Illidge (Liverpool, Great Britain) and Benjamin Astbury (Liverpool, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A smoking substitute system is provided. The apparatus comprises a housing having an air inlet; an outlet communicating with the air inlet through a flow passage; a liquid reservoir to store an aerosol precursor; and a vaporization chamber to generate an aerosol from the aerosol precursor. The vaporization chamber delivers aerosol and is in communication with the flow passage. A ...