ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,589, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Philip Morris Products S.A. (Neuchatel, Switzerland).
"Aerosol generator with dual battery heating arrangement" was invented by Riccardo Riva Reggiori (St-Sulpice, Switzerland), Alexandra Sereda (Neuchatel, Switzerland), Serge Lopez (Prades, France), Edward Branham (Neuchatel, Switzerland) and Matthew Lawrenson (Chesterfield, Mo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aerosol-generating device (100) comprises a first power source (120), an aerosolizer (110) configured to receive power from the first power source and configured to generate aerosol from an aerosol-generating substrate (170), a secon...