US Patent Issued to Fontem Ventures on April 15 for "Electronic smoking device with liquid filling valve" (British, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,306, issued on April 15, was assigned to Fontem Ventures B.V. (Amsterdam).

"Electronic smoking device with liquid filling valve" was invented by Stefan Biel (Hamburg, Germany), David Jones (Cheshire, Great Britain) and Richard Nichols (Liverpool Merseyside, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to an electronic smoking device (100) with an atomizer/liquid reservoir portion (114) and to an atomizer/liquid reservoir portion (114). In order to facilitate refilling a liquid reservoir (134) of the atomizer/liquid reservoir portion (114), the atomizer/liquid reservoir portion (114) comprises a docking valve (146...