ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,616, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Nicoventures Trading Ltd. (London).

"Refilling device" 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 refilling device for an article of an aerosol provision system includes comprises refilling control circuitry. The refilling control circuitry is configured to read data from the article in response to the article being received by the refilling device and prevent a transfer of aerosol generating material from a reservoir coupled to the refilling device to the article in response to determining that the data indicates that...