ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,617, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to JUUL Labs Inc. (Washington).
"Vaporizer device including organic bifunctional wick-heater assembly" was invented by Samira Bagheri (Mountain View, Calif.) and Namhey Lee (Hayward, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vaporization device includes a cartridge having a reservoir that holds a vaporizable material, a heating element, and a 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 material. Various embodiments of the vaporizer cartridge ar...