US Patent Issued to R.J. Reynolds Tobacco on Sept. 30 for "Heating elements formed from a sheet of a material and inputs and methods for the production of atomizers" (Massachusetts, New Hampshire, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,632, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Winston-Salem, N.C.).

"Heating elements formed from a sheet of a material and inputs and methods for the production of atomizers" was invented by John DePiano (Burlington, Mass.), David Smith (Needham, Mass.), Charles Jacob Novak III (Winston-Salem, N.C.), Frank S. Silveira (Wilmington, Mass.), Michael Laine (Newburyport, Mass.), Robert Alden Metcalfe (Newburyport, Mass.) and John William Wolber (Nashua, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to an input for production of atomizers and atomizers formed from a sheet of a material, and whic...