ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,727, issued on July 8, was assigned to JUUL Labs Inc. (Washington).

"Aerosol dispensing device with disposable container" was invented by Namhey Lee (Hayward, Calif.), Jia Li (Burlingame, Calif.) and Maurizio Tarsia (San Carlos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vaporizer device includes a cartridge and a vaporizer body. The cartridge includes reservoir configured to hold a vaporizable material. The cartridge further includes a channel extending from the reservoir and having an opening at an end of the channel. The vaporizer body includes a movable block. The vaporizer body further includes a controller configured to actuate the...