US Patent Issued to Philip Morris Products on Oct. 28 for "Aerosol-generating device with switch" (German, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,374, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Philip Morris Products S.A. (Neuchatel, Switzerland).

"Aerosol-generating device with switch" was invented by Clement Besso (Neuchatel, Switzerland), Ricardo Cali (Mannheim, Germany) and Thomas Philipp Salvador (Tiefenbach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aerosol-generating device has a body configured to receive an aerosol-generating substrate; a heating element configured to heat the aerosol-generating substrate; a power source operatively connected to the heating element; a controller configured to control the power source and the heating element; and a switch comprising a sensor t...