US Patent Issued to Altria Client Services on Nov. 4 for "Method of forming aerosol-generating article with retention medium" (Swiss Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,066, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Altria Client Services LLC (Richmond, Va.).

"Method of forming aerosol-generating article with retention medium" was invented by Michel Thorens (Moudon, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The method includes first providing a retention medium in a first element; coaxially aligning a plurality of elements, wrapping the coaxially aligned plurality of elements within a wrapper to form a portion of the aerosol-generating article, the plurality of elements including the first element, the aerosol-generating article having a first end and a second end, the second end being upstream from the fir...