US Patent Issued to PHILIP MORRIS USA on Oct. 7 for "Electrically heated smoking system with internal or external heater" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,339, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to PHILIP MORRIS USA INC. (Richmond, Va.).

"Electrically heated smoking system with internal or external heater" was invented by Gerard Zuber (Neuchatel, Switzerland), Olivier Greim (Villars-Burquin, Switzerland), Julien Plojoux (Geneva) and Dani Ruscio (Cressier, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrically heated smoking system for receiving an aerosol forming substrate includes a heater for heating the substrate to form the aerosol. The heater includes a heating element. The electrically heated smoking system and the heating element are arranged such that, when the aerosol forming s...