ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,239,782, issued on March 4, was assigned to Philip Morris Products S.A. (Neuchatel, Switzerland).
"Vaporizer device" was invented by Andrew L. Bleloch (Kenmore, Wash.), Neeraj S. Bhardwaj (Belmont, Calif.) and Gabriel Brown (Palo Alto, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vaporizer device is provided, including: a cartridge including a reservoir, the reservoir being configured to hold a vaporizable substance; a wick element located within the cartridge and including a susceptor material in a form of a tube, the wick element being configured to contact the vaporizable substance located in the cartridge; and an induction heating element...