US Patent Issued to Philip Morris Products on May 27 for "Dryer for herbaceous material with access heating" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,339, issued on May 27, was assigned to Philip Morris Products S.A. (Neuchatel, Switzerland).

"Dryer for herbaceous material with access heating" was invented by Pierre Buffat (Neuchatel, Switzerland) and Stefan Lauenstein (Cormondreche, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The dryer comprises a dryer receptacle having an inner space for receiving herbaceous material, an access assembly providing access to the inner space of the dryer receptacle, and a heating system comprising at least one access heating element for actively heating the access assembly. The access assembly comprises at least one of an inlet conveyor for supplyi...