ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,350, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Imperial Tobacco Ltd. (Bristol, Great Britain).

"Aerosol delivery device" was invented by Peter Lomas (Liverpool, Great Britain) and Chris Lord (Liverpool, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to an aerosol delivery device having a vaporizing chamber housing a vaporizer for vaporizing a vaporizable liquid and a transverse baffle mounted downstream from the vaporizer. The transverse baffle defines at least one aperture for chamber airflow path downstream of the vaporizer and an upstream face of the baffle facing the vaporizer comprises a recessed surface. I...