ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,615, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to JT International SA (Switzerland).

"Aerosol generating article and a method for manufacturing an aerosol generating article" was invented by Paul Black (Schweich, Germany), Andrew Robert John Rogan (Forres, Great Britain) and Oleksandr Zhurba (Trier, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aerosol generating article comprises an aerosol generating material part and an inductively heatable susceptor positioned in a shell. The aerosol generating material part comprises at least ten aerosol generating strips substantially oriented in a first direction and the inductively heatable susceptor is po...