ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,073, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to SHENZHEN FIRST UNION TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Shenzhen, China).

"Vapor generation device and infrared emitter" was invented by Linjian Huang (Shenzhen, China), Jian Wu (Shenzhen, China), Zhongli Xu (Shenzhen, China) and Yonghai Li (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vapor generation device and an infrared emitter is provided. The vapor generation device includes a housing, where the housing is internally provided with: a cavity, configured to receive an inhalable material; an infrared emitter, including an infrared emission material, where the infrared emission material is configured to...