ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,740,592, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to JT International SA (Geneva).
"E-cigarette" was invented by Dick Paul Voerman (Apeldoorn, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An e-cigarette includes a housing having a liquid section for holding a liquid and a battery section for holding a battery, which liquid section and battery section are configured to be coupled to each other, and a wick to take up the liquid, a heating member for heating the wick, wherein the liquid section includes a liquid reservoir provided with a liquid outlet to supply liquid to the wick and an air duct to create an air flow along the wick and to an air out...