ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,239,166, issued on March 4, was assigned to Nicoventures Trading Ltd. (London).

"Aerosol provision article and system" was invented by Scott George Boham (London) and Caner Umit Yurteri (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An article for use with an aerosol provision system. The article comprises an aerosol-generating chamber including an inlet and an outlet to facilitate air flow through the aerosol-generating chamber, and an aerosol-generating component located in the aerosol-generating chamber such that a variation in air speed proximate to a majority of a surface of the aerosol-generating component is less than 25%."

The patent wa...