ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,989, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Philip Morris Products S.A. (Neuchatel, Switzerland).
"Aerosol-generator comprising a plurality of atomisers" was invented by Leander Dittmann (Lausanne, Switzerland) and Robert Emmett (Neuchatel, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aerosol-generator for an aerosol-generating device is provided, the aerosol-generator including: a plurality of surface acoustic wave atomisers, each surface acoustic wave atomiser including: a substrate including an active surface, and at least one transducer disposed on the active surface of the substrate to generate surface acoustic waves on the active ...