ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,636, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to SHENZHEN FIRST UNION TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Shenzhen, China).

"E-cigarette vaporizer and e-cigarette that can collect and hold condensate from aerosol" was invented by Yongqiang Liu (Shenzhen, China), Linhai Lu (Shenzhen, China), Zhongli Xu (Shenzhen, China) and Yonghai Li (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application provides an e-cigarette vaporizer and an e-cigarette. The e-cigarette vaporizer includes an outer housing including an open end and an end cap arranged at the open end, where a liquid storage cavity and a sealing base configured to seal the liquid storage cavity...