ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,165, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to JT International SA (Geneva).
"Electronic cigarette" was invented by Eric Louveau (Antibes, France), Didier Malcavet (Cagnes-sur-Mer, France), Steve Anavi (Paris) and Alexandre Prot (Paris).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This electronic cigarette (1) comprises: -a heating element (10) able to vapourize a substrate during a smoking period; -means (30) for measuring an approximation (AUIOMESOO, UIOMESOO) of a characteristic of the voltage (U10(t)) across the terminals of the heating element (10) during this smoking period, said approximation being measured across the terminals (B1, B2) of a circui...