US Patent Issued to JUUL Labs on July 14 for "Safety feature for battery cell design" (California, Nevada Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,677,874, issued on July 14, was assigned to JUUL Labs Inc. (Washington).

"Safety feature for battery cell design" was invented by Jie Guan (Morgan Hill, Calif.), Nicholas R. Marker (Reno, Nev.), Erik A. Vaknine (San Jose, Calif.), Val Valentine (San Francisco), Tianren Xu (Cupertino, Calif.) and Qingcheng Zeng (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the current subject matter relate to methods and system for protecting a battery cell and/or a /pack of multiple battery cells serving as a power source of a vaporizer device from developing a short-circuit in a vaporizer device. In one aspect, a vaporizer device is provid...