US Patent Issued to Philip Morris Products on July 1 for "Aerosol-generating system and article for use therewith" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,861, issued on July 1, was assigned to Philip Morris Products S.A. (Neuchatel, Switzerland).

"Aerosol-generating system and article for use therewith" was invented by Clement Besso (Neuchatel, Switzerland) and Nazan Gunduz (Le Mont sur Lausanne, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aerosol-generating system comprising: an aerosol-generating article (1), the aerosol-generating article comprising a single metered dose of an aerosol-forming substrate; an airflow pathway (108) arranged between an air inlet (110) and an air outlet (112); an aerosolisation chamber (116) arranged at a location along the airflow pathway (108) such th...