US Patent Issued to Philip Morris Products on Jan. 28 for "Aerosol-generating device with a removably-insertable residue collector" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,207,684, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Philip Morris Products S.A. (Neuchatel, Switzerland).

"Aerosol-generating device with a removably-insertable residue collector" was invented by Dani Ruscio (Neuchatel, Switzerland), Keethan Dasnavis Fernando (Neuchatel, Switzerland), Boris Mahler (Neuchatel, Switzerland), Elmar Peter Mock (Biel/Bienne, Switzerland), Antonino Lanci (Biel/Bienne, Switzerland), Philipp Bernhard (Biel/Bienne, Switzerland), Naomi Bitmead (Biel/Bienne, Switzerland) and Mario Tronza (Biel/Bienne, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aerosol-generating system is provided, including an aerosol-generating device...