US Patent Issued to Philip Morris Products on July 15 for "Nicotine gel" (British, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,018, issued on July 15, was assigned to Philip Morris Products S.A. (Neuchatel, Switzerland).

"Nicotine gel" was invented by Sebastien Capelli (Neuchatel, Switzerland), Farideh Goudarzi (Cambridge, Great Britain), Timothy King (Cambridge, Great Britain), Jean-Yves Vollmer (Neuchatel, Switzerland) and Gerard Zuber (Neuchatel, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A composition is provided, including a gelling agent forming a solid medium, glycerol dispersed in the solid medium; and nicotine dispersed in the glycerol."

The patent was filed on April 16, 2024, under Application No. 18/637,390.

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