US Patent Issued to LINTEC on July 1 for "Vaporizer" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,245, issued on July 1, was assigned to LINTEC Co. LTD. (Shiga, Japan).

"Vaporizer" was invented by Hirofumi Ono (Shiga, Japan) and Tatsuhiko Furukado (Shiga, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vaporizer includes an atomizer, a vaporizer body, and a heating portion. The heating portion includes an inner heater block and an inner heater. An inner tube is made of a heat-resistant glass and has an outer diameter smaller than an inner diameter of the hollow vaporizer body. The inner heater block includes division pieces obtained by dividing the inner heater block along a center axis thereof and an elastic material. The elastic material...