ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,268,234, issued on April 8, was assigned to Philip Morris Products S.A. (Neuchatel, Switzerland).
"Nicotine and cellulose containing sheet" was invented by Corinne Deforel (Formangueires, Switzerland), Judith Waller (Peseux, Switzerland) and Gerard Zuber (Froideville, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heatable aerosol-generating article is provided, including an aerosol generating rod, the aerosol generating rod including a sheet for an aerosol-generating device, the sheet including: cellulosic material including cellulose powder, a weight ratio of cellulose powder to total cellulosic material in the sheet on a dry weight basi...