ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,242, issued on July 1, was assigned to JUUL Labs Inc. (Washington).
"Cartridge-based heat not burn vaporizer" was invented by Adam Bowen (San Mateo, Calif.) and James Monsees (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vaporizer cartridge configured to efficiently and effectively heat a non-liquid source material that includes a vaporizable material is described. The cartridge may include a heating element including an electrically resistive material and may be configured to vaporize the vaporizable material by delivery of heat to the vaporizable material. The cartridge may include a cartridge contact in electrical communication w...