ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,159, issued on March 24, was assigned to Imperial Tobacco Ltd. (Bristol, Great Britain).
"Smoking substitute apparatus" was invented by Benjamin Illidge (Liverpool, Great Britain), Benjamin Astbury (Liverpool, Great Britain) and Nikhil Aggarwal (Liverpool, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A smoking substitute apparatus comprises: a vaporization chamber having a longitudinal axis, the vaporization chamber having an inlet at a first end and an outlet at a second end opposite the first end. The inlet is configured to be in fluid communication with an outlet though a flow channel extending along the longitudinal axis of the ...