ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,736, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to CQENS TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Minneapolis).
"Heat-not-burn device and method" was invented by Alexander Chinhak Chong (St. Louis Park, Minn.), William Bartkowski (Edina, Minn.), David Crosby (Watsonville, Calif.) and David Wayne (Jupiter, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for converting a consumable into an aerosol with high heat without burning the consumable by packaging the consumable containing an internal susceptor inside an encasement with an induction heating element wrapped around the consumable-containing package to heat the susceptor using the induction heating element. Combusti...