ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,618, issued on June 17, was assigned to JUUL Labs Inc. (Washington).

"Vaporizer controls" was invented by Adam Bowen (San Mateo, Calif.), Brandon Cheung (San Francisco), James Monsees (San Francisco) and Roxolana Wacyk (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Vaporizers and vaporizer systems, which can include a user device in communication with a vaporizer, can include one or more features related to control of functions and/or features of the vaporizer. A method for locking a vaporizer is provided. The method includes determining whether a vaporizer is within a communication range of a second device. The method further include...