US Patent Issued to Philip Morris Products on July 29 for "Aerosol-generating system having a fluid-permeable heater assembly" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,631, issued on July 29, was assigned to Philip Morris Products S.A. (Neuchatel, Switzerland).

"Aerosol-generating system having a fluid-permeable heater assembly" was invented by Oleg Mironov (Neuchatel, Switzerland) and Rui Nuno Batista (Morges, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aerosol-generating system is provided, including a main component and a cartridge that is removably coupled to the main component, the cartridge including a liquid storage portion containing a liquid aerosol-forming substrate and a fluid-permeable electric heater assembly, and the main component includes a power supply, the heater assembly includ...