US Patent Issued to Imperial Tobacco on Oct. 28 for "Smoking substitute apparatus" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,377, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Imperial Tobacco Ltd. (Bristol, Great Britain).

"Smoking substitute apparatus" was invented by Benjamin Illidge (Liverpool, Great Britain), Benjamin Astbury (Liverpool, Great Britain), Nikhil Aggarwal (Liverpool, Great Britain) and Huanghai Lu (Liverpool, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A smoking substitute apparatus. The smoking substitute apparatus comprising: an air inlet, and a vapor outlet; a vaporization chamber the vaporization chamber including: a first vaporizer, for vaporizing aerosol precursor and providing vaporized precursor; and a second vaporizer, located downstream ...