US Patent Issued to Philip Morris Products on May 13 for "Aerosol-generating device with article locking for heating" (French, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,416, issued on May 13, was assigned to Philip Morris Products S.A. (Neuchatel, Switzerland).

"Aerosol-generating device with article locking for heating" was invented by Takeshi Mikayama (Neuchatel, Switzerland), Nicolas Frederic (Moret-Loing-et-Orvanne, France) and Poindron Cyrille (Cruseille, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to the invention there is provided an aerosol-generating device comprising a receiving region configured to receive an aerosol-generating article comprising aerosol-generating substrate. The device further comprises an atomiser configured to heat the aerosol-generating substrate of the aerosol-ge...