ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,916, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Blackship Technologies Development LLC (North Chesterfield, Va.).
"Thin plate heating elements for micro-vaporizers" was invented by Donovan Phillips (North Chesterfield, Va.) and Yongjie Xu (North Chesterfield, Va.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vaporizer heating element has a heating element body formed from a single sheet of electrically conductive material having a constant sheet thickness. A peripheral conduction portion has spaced apart positive and negative support arms each having an interior edge. A central heating portion has a plurality of parallel heating strips, spaces between th...