ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,017, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to VMR Products LLC (San Francisco).

"Vaporizer" was invented by Jan Andries Verleur (Miami Beach, Fla.), Dan Recio (Miami), Yifeng Lu (Miami), Yinjun Zhang (Miami), Arturo Fajardo (Frisco, Texas) and Hans Verleur (El Dorado, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Vaporizer and/or electronic cigarette chargers useful for the recharging of rechargeable vaporizer or electronic cigarette power supplies such as batteries, compatible vaporizers and/or electronic cigarettes, their components, charging contacts, methods of their use and kits containing such chargers are disclosed."

The patent was filed o...