ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,509, issued on March 18, was assigned to JUUL Labs Inc. (Washington).
"Vaporizer power system" was invented by Nicholas J. Hatton (Oakland, Calif.) and Val Valentine (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a converter configured to electrically couple to a power source and to a heating element of a vaporizer atomizer. The converter can be further configured to receive a first voltage from the power source and provide a second voltage to the heating element. The converter can be a direct-current to direct-current converter. A power monitor configured to electrically couple to the heating element, measure a cur...