US Patent Issued to Altria Client Services on Jan. 27 for "Aerosol-generating system including a heated gel container" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,918, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Altria Client Services LLC (Richmond, Va.).

"Aerosol-generating system including a heated gel container" was invented by Gerard Zuber (Neuchatel, Switzerland) and Jean-Yves Vollmer (Neuchatel, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aerosol-generating system may include an electrical power supply, an electrical heater connected to the electrical power supply, and a substrate container. The substrate container may define a blind cavity containing an aerosol-forming substrate in the form of a gel that is a solid at room temperature. The electrical heater is external to the substrate contain...