US Patent Issued to Hanna Carfield on Nov. 11 for "Releasable mouthpiece locking mechanism" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,083, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Hanna Carfield (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Releasable mouthpiece locking mechanism" was invented by Hanna Carfield (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Wentao Yang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A releasable mouthpiece locking mechanism comprises one or more pairs of flexible, hooked arms that can be disposed in an interior portion of a mouthpiece housing. The arms can engage a tube of a vaporization cartridge to lock the vaporization cartridge and can be radially displaced to release the vaporization cartridge."

The patent was filed on Oct. 14, 2022, under Application No. 18/020,558.

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