US Patent Issued to Philip Morris Products on March 25 for "Aerosol-generating article comprising three dimensional code" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,289, issued on March 25, was assigned to Philip Morris Products S.A. (Neuchatel, Switzerland).

"Aerosol-generating article comprising three dimensional code" was invented by Dionisius Florack (Le Landeron, Switzerland) and Evan Jochnowitz (Basel, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The aerosol-generating article for use with an aerosol-generating device, the aerosol-generating article comprises an aerosol-forming substrate, and a surface area comprising a three dimensional code. The invention also relates to an aerosol-generating system comprising an aerosol-generating device and an aerosol-generating article."

The patent wa...