US Patent Issued to Philip Morris USA on Aug. 26 for "Method or forming elongated array with heating elements that bow concentrically outward from radial centerline" (British, American, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,489, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Philip Morris USA Inc. (Richmond, Va.).

"Method or forming elongated array with heating elements that bow concentrically outward from radial centerline" was invented by Olivier Greim (Villars-Burquin, Switzerland), Felix Fernando (Berkshire, Great Britain) and Charles Higgins (Richmond, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The method includes forming an elongated array by first connecting first distal ends of first heating elements to each other to form a first end of the elongated array, and second connecting second distal ends of the first heating elements to each other to form a second end of ...