ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,864, issued on July 1, was assigned to JUUL Labs Inc. (Washington).
"Gels wicks for vaporizer devices" was invented by Kristopher P. Diokno (San Jose, Calif.), Namhey Lee (Hayward, Calif.), Anusha Saripalli (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Krishnamohan Sharma (Milpitas, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vaporization device includes a vaporizer cartridge having a reservoir that holds a vaporizable material, a heating element, and a gel wicking element that can draw the vaporizable material to the heating element to be vaporized. The vaporizer cartridge is configured for coupling to a vaporizer device body and containing a vaporizable ma...