ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,745,802, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to JUUL Labs Inc. (Washington).

"Vaporizer device with variable booster circuit" was invented by Nicholas J. Hatton (Oakland, Calif.) and Immaneni Hiteshwar Rao (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vaporization device includes a cartridge having a reservoir that holds a vaporizable material, a heating element, and a wicking element that can draw the vaporizable material to the heating element to be vaporized. The vaporizer cartridge is configured for coupling to a vaporizer device body and containing a vaporizable material. Various embodiments of the vaporizer cartridge are describe...