ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,026, issued on July 15, was assigned to Nicoventures Trading Ltd. (London).

"Heater for a vapor provision system" was invented by Patrick Moloney (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heater for vaporizing aerosolizable substrate material in an electronic vapor provision system has an elongate format and is formed from a planar element of electrically resistive material having a length, a width, and two pairs of opposite edges comprising two major edges substantially parallel to the length and two minor edges substantially parallel to the width, wherein the planar element is curved to form the elongate format of the heater such th...