ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,175, issued on April 15, was assigned to NICOVENTURES TRADING Ltd. (London).
"Vaping policy alert system and method" was invented by Darryl Baker (London) and Ross Oldbury (London).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of providing a vaping policy alert by a mobile communications device includes receiving, at the mobile communications device, mobile network data from a base station; extracting a country code for the location of the mobile communications device from the received mobile network data; obtaining vaping policy alert data responsive to the obtained country code; and displaying the vaping policy alert data."
The patent was...