ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,229, issued on May 20.

"System and method for managing concentrate usage of a user" was invented by John Jesse Woodbine (Golden, Colo.), Peter William Calfee (Golden, Colo.), Christopher Bennett Carter (Atlanta), Gary Ross Mitchell (Lyons, Colo.) and William F Demyanovich (Lyons, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system comprising a vaporizing device and a central server is described. The vaporizing device includes a housing and a cartridge, received within the housing, the cartridge including a predefined quantity of concentrate and an identification code associated with the concentrate and uniquely identifying the cartridge. T...