ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,874, issued on April 7, was assigned to Nicoventures Trading Ltd. (Great Britain).
"Non-combustible aerosol delivery system" was invented by Hripsime Gasparyan (London), Simon James Copley (St. Ives, Great Britain), Mathew John Price (St. Ives, Great Britain) and Matthew Maurice Homburg (St. Ives, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a non-combustible aerosol delivery system for filtering exhaled breath, the aerosol delivery system including a power source; a mouthpiece; a filter unit; an inhalate airflow path adapted to convey vapor generated by the aerosol delivery system to the user during an inhalation, ...