ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,940, issued on May 20, 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) separating a continuous strip of aerosol generating substrate from the continuous web of aerosol generating substrate provid...