ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,172, issued on March 24, was assigned to SHENZHEN SMOORE TECHNOLOGY Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Liquid storage assembly, electronic vaporization apparatus, and remaining volume detection method" was invented by Jiagang Mei (Shenzhen, China), Yu Du (Shenzhen, China) and Tongfei Pan (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid storage assembly includes: a liquid storage cavity for storing to-be-vaporized liquid; a reference element at least partially located in the liquid storage cavity and including a reference electrode; at least one detection element at least partially located in the liquid storage cavity, the at least one...