US Patent Issued to JUUL Labs on July 21 for "Vaporizer device including metallic bifunctional wick-heater assembly" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,337, issued on July 21, was assigned to JUUL Labs Inc. (Washington).

"Vaporizer device including metallic bifunctional wick-heater assembly" was invented by Samira Bagheri (Mountain View, Calif.), Ian Garcia-Doty (Oakland, Calif.), Eddie G. Gonzalez (San Francisco), Namhey Lee (Hayward, Calif.), Jia Li (Burlingame, Calif.) and Paul R. Vieira (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vaporization device includes a cartridge having a reservoir that holds a vaporizable material, a heating element, and a wicking element that can draw the vaporizable material to the heating element to be vaporized. The vaporizer cartridge is confi...