ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,204, issued on May 19, was assigned to Nicoventures Trading Ltd. (London).

"Computer, system and method" was invented by My-Linh Tran (London), Robert Kersey (London) and Stephen Potter (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer is configured to receive, from a refilling device for an article of an aerosol provision system associated with the computer via a remote data store using a wireless communications protocol, an indication of a number of times the article of the aerosol provision system has been refilled with aerosol generating material. The computer is then configured to provide the indication to a user of the computer....