ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,628, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to JT International SA (Switzerland).
"Heater assembly" was invented by Nelson Kevin Fraser (London), Akihiko Suzuki (Tokyo), Glenn Harrison (Andover, Great Britain), Eduardo Jose Garcia Garcia (Grand-Saconnex, Switzerland) and Manabu Yamada (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heater assembly for an aerosol generating device includes a tubular heating chamber and a flexible thin film heater comprising a heating element track supported on a surface of a flexible electrically insulating backing film. The flexible thin film heater is wrapped around an outer surface of the heating chamber with t...