US Patent Issued to Nicoventures Trading on Aug. 18 for "Computing device" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,711,218, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Nicoventures Trading Ltd. (London).

"Computing device" was invented by Scott George Boham (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing device is configured to receive an image containing a code associated with a consumable of an aerosol provision system. The computing device reads the code to generate consumable data and a digital signature. The computing device validates the digital signature using a public key of a key pair, and determines whether to approve the consumable based on the consumable data in response to the digital signature being validated."

The patent was filed on Sept. ...