US Patent Issued to Japan Tobacco on May 27 for "Non-combustible heating-type smoking article, electric heating-type smoking system, and method for producing non-combustible heating-type smoking article" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,399, issued on May 27, was assigned to Japan Tobacco Inc (Tokyo).

"Non-combustible heating-type smoking article, electric heating-type smoking system, and method for producing non-combustible heating-type smoking article" was invented by Kenichi Iwanaga (Tokyo), Toru Sakurai (Tokyo) and Noriko Osawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A non-combustible heating-type smoking article includes: a tobacco filler; and a wrapper enclosing the tobacco filler. The wrapper includes: a substrate sheet made of metal; a first sheet made of paper and bonded to one surface of the substrate sheet on a side of the tobacco filler; and a second sheet...