ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,196, issued on June 17, was assigned to Philip Morris Products S.A. (Neuchatel, Switzerland).

"Shisha system with a heating unit comprising two electrodes" was invented by Robert Emmett (Neuchatel, Switzerland) and Ana Isabel Gonzalez Florez (St-Sulpice, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shisha system comprising an aerosol-generating article (90) and a shisha device (50). The aerosol-generating article (90) comprises an aerosol-forming substrate (92). The shisha system further comprises a first electrode (15) and a second electrode (16). The shisha device (50) comprises a liquid cavity (54) configured to contain a volume o...