ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,628, issued on July 29, was assigned to Philip Morris Products S.A. (Neuchatel, Switzerland).
"Cartridge for an aerosol-generating device with impermeable capsule" was invented by Guillaume Frederick (Les-Geneveys-sur-Coffrane, Switzerland), Fabiana Spadaro (Lausanne, Switzerland) and Ihar Zinovik (Peseux, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a cartridge (10) configured for usage with an aerosol-generating device. The cartridge comprises an impermeable capsule (14) configured to hold liquid aerosol-generating substrate. At least a portion of the capsule is configured as a heat-perforatable portion (16)....