US Patent Issued to Philip Morris Products on Oct. 28 for "Aerosol-generating device for use with an aerosol-generating article comprising means for article identification" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,380, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Philip Morris Products S.A. (Neuchatel, Switzerland).

"Aerosol-generating device for use with an aerosol-generating article comprising means for article identification" was invented by Oleg Mironov (Neuchatel, Switzerland), Jerome Christian Courbat (Neuchatel, Switzerland) and Enrico Stura (Neuchatel, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrically heatable aerosol-generating device for an aerosol-generating article is provided, including a device housing including a receiving cavity within a proximal portion of the device to receive the article; a separating wall adjacent to a dista...