ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,911, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to PHILIP MORRIS PRODUCTS S.A. (Neuchatel, Switzerland).
"Smoking article with front-plug and method" was invented by Gerard Zuber (Froideville, Switzerland), Thomas Badertscher (Cernier, Switzerland) and Cedric Meyer (Lausanne, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A smoking article for an aerosol-generating device including a heating element is provided, the article retaining an aerosol-forming substrate in fixed relation to and in contact with a cigarette paper of the article after shrinkage of the substrate, the article including cylindrical elements including a front-plug and the substra...