ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,250, issued on June 10, was assigned to Cricut Inc (South Jordan, Utah).

"Sublimation systems and related methods" was invented by Kristy Lynn Barney (Lehi, Utah), Desmond Kavanagh (Wicklow, Ireland), Bayden Filleul (Taumarunui, New Zealand), Jerome Tobin (Wicklow, Ireland), Mathew Bates (Dublin), Peter Bevan (Wicklow, Ireland) and Norman Stevenson (Dublin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a sublimating device includes providing heat to a cavity of the sublimating device by increasing (i) a temperature of a heater to a predetermined target temperature and (ii) a temperature of a base heater to a predetermined stand...