US Patent Issued to JUUL Labs on June 17 for "Vaporizer including positive temperature coefficient of resistivity (PTCR) heating element" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,897, issued on June 17, was assigned to JUUL Labs Inc. (Washington).

"Vaporizer including positive temperature coefficient of resistivity (PTCR) heating element" was invented by William W. Alston (Lincoln, Calif.), Adam Bowen (San Mateo, Calif.), Joshua A. Kurzman (San Francisco) and James Monsees (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a housing including a power source; a reservoir including an inlet, an outlet, and configured to contain vaporizable material and couple to the housing; and a PTCR heating element configured to electrically couple to the power source and heat the vaporizable material to for...