ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,673, issued on July 7, was assigned to Vaporous Technologies Inc. (Torrance, Calif.).

"Personal vaporizer for use with vial" was invented by J. Christian Rado (Torrance, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A personal vaporizer is configured to be used with a separately-formed vial. The vial can be sandwiched between a proximal and distal portion of the vaporizer, which in turn can be releasably attached to, and powered by, a battery assembly. Attaching the proximal and distal portions, with the vial in place, can both hold the vial in place and provide access to the vial so that vaporizing media within the vial can flow to an atomiz...