ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,913, issued on Jan. 27.
"Smart humidifier for humidor" was invented by Karim Tarazi (Simi Valley, Calif.) and Nader Nabil Rayes (Camarillo, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A smart humidifier (e.g., for humidors, such as cigar humidors) has a built in refillable water tank, a wick disposed in the tank in fluid communication with liquid in the tank, and an automizer operable to convert liquid in the wick to a mist that is dispersed out of a housing of the humidifier. The humidifier includes a sensor that senses relative humidity of a space adjacent the humidifier, and a microcontroller unit controls an operation of the atomizer t...