US Patent Issued to Philip Morris Products on April 7 for "Inhaler article with open distal end, and inhaler system" (Swiss Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,387, issued on April 7, was assigned to Philip Morris Products S.A. (Neuchatel, Switzerland).

"Inhaler article with open distal end, and inhaler system" was invented by Gennaro Campitelli (Neuchatel, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inhaler article (150) includes a body (151) extending along a longitudinal axis of the inhaler article from a mouthpiece end (154) to a distal end (156), a capsule cavity (155) and a capsule (160) retained within the capsule cavity. The capsule cavity is defined within the body and bounded downstream by a filter element (157) and bounded upstream by a tubular element (153) defining a central ...