ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,225,935, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to PHILIP MORRIS PRODUCTS S.A. (Neuchatel, Switzerland).
"Aerosol-generating devices" was invented by Robert Emmett (Neuchatel, Switzerland) and Dionisius Florack (Le Landeron, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aerosol-generating device (1) includes a heating element (8); a dosing assembly (2) comprising: a cutting mechanism (4) disposed in a cutting region and configured to cut a portion from an aerosol-generating article (20) received by the aerosol-generating device; and a transfer mechanism (6) configured to transfer a cut portion of the aerosol-generating article from the cutting ...