ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,928, issued on June 3, was assigned to KORBER TECHNOLOGIES GMBH (Hamburg, Germany).

"Vaporizer cartridge and inhaler comprising such a vaporizer cartridge" was invented by Max Bergmann (Hamburg, Germany), Lasse Cornils (Hamburg, Germany), Matthias Giese (Tokyo), Christian Hanneken (Hamburg, Germany), Jan Jaklin (Fellbach, Germany), Marc Kessler (Hamburg, Germany), Michael Kleine Wachter (Lankau, Germany), Thomas Muller (Hamburg, Germany), Niklas Romming (Hamburg, Germany), Christof Schuster (Hamburg, Germany), Tobias Wuttke (Reinbek, Germany) and Rene Schmidt (Buchholz i.d.N., Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vaporizer cartrid...