ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,653,224, issued on June 16, was assigned to JT International SA (Geneva).

"Flavoring device and a method to flavor an aerosol generating article using such flavoring device" was invented by Stephan Preusser (Trier, Germany), Adrian Hartanto (Trier, Germany) and Daniel Lickefeld (Riol, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flavoring device includes a three-dimensional shape with a surface enclosing an inner volume, wherein the surface includes a first part directed outwardly of the three-dimensional shape and a second part being the lateral area of a cylindrically shaped hole protruding through the flavoring device, wherein the flavori...