ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,776, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to JT International SA (Switzerland).

"Article for an aerosol generation device comprising an information code" was invented by Pranav Kulkarni (Trier, Germany), Patrice Borne (Publier, France), Aleksandr Kontarev (Trier, Germany) and Layth Sliman Bouchuiguir (Bellevue, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An article for an aerosol generation device comprising a tobacco material configured to generate an aerosol is disclosed. The article includes a wrapper. The wrapper comprises an information code for storing information on the article. The information code is optically recognizable. The in...