US Patent Issued to Philip Morris Products on Aug. 4 for "Aerosol generating article with front end plug" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,926, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Philip Morris Products S.A. (Neuchatel, Switzerland).

"Aerosol generating article with front end plug" was invented by Gennaro Campitelli (Neuchatel, Switzerland) and Jerome Uthurry (Neuchatel, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aerosol-generating article is provided, including: an aerosol-generating substrate; a downstream section extending from a downstream end of the aerosol-generating substrate to a downstream end of the aerosol-generating article; and an upstream section extending from an upstream end of the aerosol-generating substrate to an upstream end of the aerosol-generating...