ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,070, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Imperial Tobacco Ltd. (Bristol, Great Britain).
"Aerosol delivery system" was invented by Chris Lord (Liverpool, Great Britain), Thomas Sudlow (Liverpool, Great Britain), Ben Illidge (Liverpool, Great Britain), Alfred Madden (Liverpool, Great Britain) and Ben Astbury (Liverpool, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is disclosed an aerosol-generation apparatus having a heater and a fluid-transfer article, the fluid-transfer article including a first region holding an aerosol precursor and transferring said aerosol precursor to an activation surface of a second region of said article,...