US Patent Issued to Philip Morris Products on Oct. 14 for "Inductive heating arrangement with gas permeable segmented inductive heating element" (Swiss, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,969, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Philip Morris Products S.A. (Neuchatel, Switzerland).

"Inductive heating arrangement with gas permeable segmented inductive heating element" was invented by Rui Nuno Batista (Neuchatel, Switzerland) and Ricardo Cali (Mannheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inductive heating element for an aerosol-generating system is provided, the inductive heating element including: a cavity configured to receive an aerosol-forming substrate to be heated by the inductive heating element; a first susceptor; a second susceptor; and an intermediate element disposed between the first susceptor and the ...