ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,158, issued on April 14, was assigned to GUANGDONG WONDERFUL INTERNATIONAL BIOTECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Guangdong, China).

"Sucking particle for heat-not-burn cigarettes and manufacturing method" was invented by Jianbing Qian (Jinan, China), Lei Ma (Jinan, China) and Baoming Zhan (Jinan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention discloses a sucking particle for heat-not-bum cigarettes, which comprises the following components by weight fraction: 8-20 parts of microcrystalline cellulose, 50-80 parts of tobacco powder, 0.5-2 parts of tobacco pyrolysate, 1 part of physiological taste adjusting component of tobacco, 8-30 parts of at...