ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,575,608, issued on March 17, was assigned to JUUL Labs Inc. (Washington).

"Heating system for vaporizable material insert" was invented by Oliver J. Batley (Cambridge, Great Britain), Simon Burge (Ely, Great Britain), Ian Garcia-Doty (Oakland, Calif.), Xenofon Kalogeropoulos (Cambridge, Great Britain), Alexander R. Mauchle (Milton Keynes, Great Britain), Andrew D. Newbold (Ixworth, Great Britain), Simon J. Smith (Hertford, Great Britain) and Paul R. Vieira (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments of a system for generating an inhalable aerosol are described. In some embodiments, the system includes a vaporizer...