ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,027, issued on July 15, was assigned to SHENZHEN FIRST UNION TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Shenzhen, China).
"Smoking article" was invented by Zuqiang Qi (Shenzhen, China), Jian Wu (Shenzhen, China), Jiamao Luo (Shenzhen, China), Baoling Lei (Shenzhen, China), Zhongli Xu (Shenzhen, China) and Yonghai Li (Shenzhen, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A smoking article comprises a smoke generating section, having a tube wall and a tube cavity; the tube cavity being configured to contain the aerosol-forming matrix; an infrared radiation layer, being formed on at least part of the inner surface of the tube wall; the infrared radiation layer bein...