US Patent Issued to JT International on Feb. 17 for "Aerosol generating article and an aerosol generating system" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,929, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to JT International SA (Switzerland).

"Aerosol generating article and an aerosol generating system" was invented by Andrew Robert John Rogan (Forres, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aerosol generating article includes a wrapper, an aerosol generating substrate positioned in the wrapper to form a rod having a mouth end and a distal end upstream of the mouth end, and an airflow barrier positioned in the wrapper. The airflow barrier includes a deformable capsule which substantially prevents airflow from the distal end to the mouth end when in an undeformed state. The deformable capsul...