ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,191, issued on June 17, was assigned to JT International SA (Switzerland).

"Method for manufacturing aerosol generating articles" was invented by Marcus Wagner (Hamburg, Germany), Julia Schwanebeck (Geesthacht, Germany), Martina Stamer (Grosshansdorf, Germany), Marlo-Leander Schmidt (Hamburg, Germany) and Felix Seitz (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for continuously manufacturing aerosol generating articles includes: (i) providing a continuous web of an aerosol generating substrate; (ii) applying at least one susceptor patch to a surface of the continuous web of aerosol generating substrate; (iii) cutting the...