ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,617, issued on July 29, was assigned to JUUL Labs Inc. (Washington).
"Metal oxide-based gel nicotine compositions" was invented by Kristopher P. Diokno (San Jose, Calif.), Namhey Lee (Hayward, Calif.) and Christopher W. Lim (Fremont, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein, inter alia, are compositions including sol-gels and nicotine. The compositions are readily prepared and stored in cartridges or used directly in a device for delivering nicotine to a user."
The patent was filed on June 21, 2022, under Application No. 17/845,350.
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