ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,575,612, issued on March 17, was assigned to N2B Ltd. (Limassol, Cyprus).

"Smoking device with flattening function" was invented by Yossef Raichman (Limassol, Cyprus).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and methods are provided for use with a cylindrically-shaped capsule that contains a smoking material containing one or more active agents. A smoking device receives the cylindrically-shaped capsule that contains the smoking material and flattens at least part of a portion of the capsule that contains the smoking material. The smoking device vaporizes one or more of the active agents from within the smoking material by heating the sm...