ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,736, issued on July 8, was assigned to FONTEM VENTURES B.V. (Amsterdam).
"Electronic smoking device" was invented by Vaclav Borkovec (Hamburg, Germany) and Thorben Rehders (Hamburg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic smoking device includes an elongate housing sleeve accommodating at least part of the following components: a battery as an electric power source powering an electrically activatable atomizer including an electric heater adapted to atomize a liquid supplied from a reservoir to provide an aerosol exiting from the atomizer; a puff detector adapted to indicate an aerosol inhaling puff; and control electroni...