US Patent Issued to Philip Morris Products on Sept. 2 for "Aerosol-generating article comprising a main reservoir and a capillary buffer reservoir" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,402,656, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Philip Morris Products S.A. (Neuchatel, Switzerland).

"Aerosol-generating article comprising a main reservoir and a capillary buffer reservoir" was invented by Jerome Christian Courbat (Cortaillod, Switzerland), Oleg Mironov (Cudrefin, Switzerland) and Ozgur Ozsun (Kilchberg, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aerosol-generating article for an aerosol-generating device is provided, the aerosol-generating article including a main reservoir to store aerosol-forming liquid; a capillary buffer reservoir in fluid communication with the main reservoir to store the aerosol-forming liquid du...