ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,842, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to JUUL Labs Inc. (Washington).
"Battery for vaporizer device" was invented by Jie Guan (Morgan Hill, Calif.), Val Valentine (San Francisco) and Qingcheng Zeng (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vaporizer that includes a metal-air battery, in particular a zinc-air battery is described herein. The metal-air battery can have increased power output relative to conventional batteries. Various embodiments of the vaporizer are described that include one or more features for low environmental impact, disposability, and increased power output. Related systems, methods, and articles of manu...