US Patent Issued to Japan Tobacco on Nov. 18 for "Non-combustible heating-type smoking article and electric heating-type smoking system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,621, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Japan Tobacco Inc (Tokyo).

"Non-combustible heating-type smoking article and electric heating-type smoking system" was invented by Toru Sakurai (Tokyo), Kenichi Iwanaga (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 part. The tobacco part includes: a tobacco filler; and a wrapper enclosing the tobacco filler. The tobacco part has a hardness of 0.41 to 1.5 N when compressed by a length corresponding to 10% of a diameter of the tobacco part in a diameter direction of the tobacco part. The wrapper is formed by attac...