US Patent Issued to ALTRIA CLIENT SERVICES on May 6 for "Heating element and heater assemblies, cartridges, and e-vapor devices including a heating element" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,290,104, issued on May 6, was assigned to ALTRIA CLIENT SERVICES LLC (Richmond, Va.).

"Heating element and heater assemblies, cartridges, and e-vapor devices including a heating element" was invented by Arie Holtz (Jerusalem) and Isaac Weigensberg (Tekoa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an example embodiment, a heater assembly for an electronic heating device includes a heating element and a support. The heating element includes a planar portion, a first lead, and a second lead. The planar portion includes a filament. The filament defines an air channel through the planar portion. The filament includes a plurality of curves. At ...