ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,323, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to CHINA TOBACCO HUBEI INDUSTRIAL CORPORATION LIMITED (Wuhan, China).

"Ceramic heater and preparation method and use of ceramic heater" was invented by Huachen Liu (Wuhan, China), Yikun Chen (Wuhan, China), Dan Li (Wuhan, China), Tengfei Deng (Wuhan, China) and Tengfei Hu (Wuhan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a ceramic heat generation body and a preparation method thereof. The ceramic heat generation body includes a ceramic rod matrix, and electronic paste is printed on a surface of the ceramic rod matrix in a decalcomania manner. The preparation method inclu...