ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,200, issued on June 17, was assigned to JT International S.A. (Switzerland).

"Vapour generating device" was invented by Claude Zominy (Copponex, France), Pingkun Liu (Guangdong, China), Yongbao Yuan (Guangdong, China) and Juan Jose Moreno Rodriguez (Geneva).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heating assembly for a vapour generating device includes: a heating chamber arranged to hold an aerosol generating medium; a heater arranged, in use, to provide heating to the heating chamber; and an ejector arranged to controllably eject, in use, the aerosol generating medium from the heating chamber. A vapour generating device includes the heating...