ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,568, issued on June 24, was assigned to Philip Morris Products S.A. (Neuchatel, Switzerland).
"Heater assembly with pierced transport material" was invented by Guillame Frederick (Neuchatel, Switzerland), Patrick Charles Silvestrini (Neuchatel, Switzerland), Jean-Marc Widmer (Neuchatel, Switzerland) and Ihar Nikolaevich Zinovik (Neuchatel, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heater assembly for an aerosol-generating system is provided, the heater assembly including: a fluid-permeable heating element configured to vaporise a liquid aerosol-forming substrate; and a transport material configured to transport liquid aerosol-form...