ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,774, issued on March 25, was assigned to Philip Morris Products S.A. (Neuchatel, Switzerland).
"Rods for use in smoking articles" was invented by Pierre-Yves Gindrat (Saxon, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A smoking article is provided, including an aerosol-generating substrate, the aerosol-generating substrate being a rod including a gathered sheet of homogenised tobacco material circumscribed by a wrapper, the gathered sheet of homogenised tobacco material including one or more aerosol-formers and having an aerosol-former content of greater than 5% on a dry weight basis, and the rod having a length of between 5 mm and 2...