US Patent Issued to Philip Morris Products on Oct. 14 for "Aerosol-generating system comprising a fluid permeable susceptor element" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,971, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Philip Morris Products S.A. (Neuchatel, Switzerland).

"Aerosol-generating system comprising a fluid permeable susceptor element" was invented by Oleg Mironov (Neuchatel, Switzerland), Ihar Nikolaevich Zinovik (Peseux, Switzerland) and Michel Thorens (Moudon, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrically heatable aerosol-generating system is provided, including an aerosol-generating device and a cartridge configured to be used with the aerosol-generating device, the aerosol-generating device including: a device housing, an inductor coil, and a power supply connected to the inductor ...