ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,620, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Vaporous Technologies Inc. (Torrance, Calif.).

"Personal vaporizer and method for filling same" was invented by J. Christian Rado (Torrance, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A personal vaporizer has a hollow tube that extends from an atomizer through a tank for holding vaporization media. The hollow tube has a vapor tube portion and a filling path portion. A mouthpiece can be advanced over the hollow tube to a first position, at which the mouthpiece lumen communicates with the tank via the filling path portion. During manufacture, vaporization media can be injected into the mouthpiece lume...