ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,639, issued on July 29, was assigned to Imperial Tobacco Ltd. (Bristol, Great Britain).
"Aerosol delivery device" was invented by Andrew Austin (Liverpool, Great Britain), Tamas Sajtos (Liverpool, Great Britain), Pete Lomas (Liverpool, Great Britain), Chris Lord (Liverpool, Great Britain) and Ross Shenton (Liverpool, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aerosol delivery device comprises: a storage for storing aerosol precursor liquid, the storage comprising an air bleed channel for permitting air to enter the storage as the storage empties of aerosol precursor in use; and a liquid transfer element for transferring aerosol ...