ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,414, issued on May 13, 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 housing having a longitudinal axis; an air inlet and an air outlet; a vaporization chamber having a vaporization chamber inlet and a heater. The air inlet and air outlet are in fluid communication through an airflow channel. The airflow channel passes through the vaporization chamber inlet and th...