ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,738, issued on July 8, was assigned to JUUL LABS INC. (Washington).

"User interface and user experience for a vaporizer device" was invented by Nicholas Achtien (San Francisco), Raffi Aghapekian (San Francisco), Ariel Atkins (San Francisco), Brandon Cheung (San Francisco), Adam Bowen (San Mateo, Calif.), Gal A. Cohen (Mill Valley, Calif.), Jacob Honig (San Francisco), Alexander J. Gould (Portola Valley, Calif.), Nicholas J. Hatton (Oakland, Calif.), Chelsea Kania (San Francisco), James Monsees (San Francisco), Roxolana Wacyk (San Francisco) and Casey S. Yost (Daly City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Vaporizers and vaporizer sy...