US Patent Issued to Philip Morris Products on Sept. 2 for "Tubular element, comprising porous medium, for use with an aerosol generating article" (Swiss, Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,402,649, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Philip Morris Products S.A. (Neuchatel, Switzerland).

"Tubular element, comprising porous medium, for use with an aerosol generating article" was invented by Gennaro Campitelli (Neuchatel, Switzerland), Gianpaolo D'Ambra (Castel Maggiore, Italy) and Onur Dayioglu (Neuchatel, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tubular element for an aerosol-generating device, the tubular element including: a first longitudinal passageway; and a porous medium loaded with gel, the gel including an active agent, the porous medium loaded with gel being crimped, the gel including an active agent includes an...