US Patent Issued to Philip Morris Products on Oct. 7 for "Aerosol-generating article having a plurality of air ingress zones" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,327, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Philip Morris Products S.A. (Neuchatel, Switzerland).

"Aerosol-generating article having a plurality of air ingress zones" was invented by Guillaume Bastien Baur (Genolier, Switzerland), Daniele Sanna (Marin-Epagnier, Switzerland) and Jerome Uthurry (Neuchatel, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aerosol-generating article for producing an aerosol upon heating is provided, the article including: a rod of aerosol-forming substrate; and a filter positioned downstream of the rod, in which the rod and the filter are assembled within a wrapper, the article further including first and second ...