ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,398,877, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Yield Engineering Systems Inc. (Fremont, Calif.).
"Fluid vaporizers" was invented by Craig McCoy (San Jose, Calif.), Tapani Laaksonen (Fremont, Calif.), Vladimir Kudriavtsev (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Jose Garvey (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vaporizer apparatus includes a liquid inlet; a plurality of plates in a stacked arrangement and configured with openings and surfaces defining a tortuous path for a liquid through the plurality of plates; an atomizer configured to atomize liquid from the liquid inlet and inject a spray of the liquid toward a first plate of the plurality o...