ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,734, issued on July 8, was assigned to Philip Morris Products S.A. (Neuchatel, Switzerland).

"Aerosol-generating device for generating an aerosol by inductive heating of an aerosol-forming substrate" was invented by Oleg Fursa (Gempenach, Switzerland), Andreas Michael Rossoll (Le Mont-sur-Lausanne, Switzerland), Enrico Stura (Palezieux-Village, Switzerland) and Stefan Weber (Regensburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aerosol-generating device for generating an aerosol by inductive heating of an aerosol-forming substrate is provided, the device including: a device housing including a cavity to removably receive the substrate...