ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,290,105, issued on May 6, was assigned to Fontem Ventures B.V. (Amsterdam).
"Electronic smoking device with liquid pump" was invented by Martin Wensley (Amsterdam).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to an electronic smoking device (10) with an atomizer/liquid reservoir portion (14) and to a method for generating vapor to be inhaled, by atomizing liquid, wherein the liquid is atomized by heating. In order to avoid that the liquid is overheated, the invention provides that the temperature applied for atomizing the liquid is controlled by controlling the pump rate of a liquid pump (35) of the electronic smoking device (10)....