US Patent Issued to JUUL Labs on Sept. 15 for "Vaporizer device heater control" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,739,945, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to JUUL Labs Inc. (Washington).

"Vaporizer device heater control" was invented by Joseph R. Fisher Jr. (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Nicholas J. Hatton (Oakland, Calif.), Andrew L. Murphy (San Francisco), Hugh Pham (San Jose, Calif.) and Val Valentine (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a current source circuit; a system power input; and load switching circuitry coupling the current source circuit and the system power input to an output configured to couple to a vaporizer heating element. The current source circuit, the system power input, and the load switching circuitry for...