US Patent Issued to Philip Morris Products on June 24 for "Aerosol generating article with retainer" (Swiss, Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,560, issued on June 24, was assigned to Philip Morris Products S.A. (Neuchatel, Switzerland).

"Aerosol generating article with retainer" was invented by Didier Graf (Salvenach, Switzerland), Michele Lorenzelli (Bologna, Italy), Alexis Louvet (Lausanne, Switzerland) and Farhang Mohseni (Neuchatel, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an aerosol generating article (2). The aerosol generating article comprises a combustible heat source (4) having a longitudinal outer surface, an aerosol-forming substrate (10) downstream of the combustible heat source, and a retaining wrap (35). The retaining wrap comprises a an u...