ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,068, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to JT International S.A. (Switzerland).
"Vapour generating device" was invented by Pingkun Liu (Guangdong, China), Yongbao Yuan (Guangdong, China), Min Xu (Weybridge, Great Britain), Damian Dickson (Ballymena, Great Britain) and Gordon Montgomery (Ballymena, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vapour generating device is arranged to receive solid vapour generating material. The vapour generating device includes a vapour generating chamber which is arranged to contain the solid vapour generating material and a closure for the vapour generating chamber. The closure is arranged to define a...