ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,104, issued on June 24, was assigned to FONTEM VENTURES B.V. (Amsterdam).
"Electronic cigarette" was invented by Ramon Alarcon (Los Gatos, Calif.), Adam Hoffman (Campbell, Calif.), Michael Starman (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Christopher Myles (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with one aspect of the present invention there is provided an electronic smoking device comprising a flow channel and an atomizer. The flow channel can comprise an incoming airflow opening, an incoming airflow pathway, a sensor assembly, and an outgoing airflow opening. The atomizer can be fluidly coupled to the flow channel. The flow ch...