US Patent Issued to Philip Morris Products on Aug. 4 for "Aerosol-generating device with offset airflow channel" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,935, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Philip Morris Products S.A. (Neuchatel, Switzerland).

"Aerosol-generating device with offset airflow channel" was invented by Guillaume Frederick (Les-Geneveys-sur-Coffrane, Switzerland) and Ihar Zinovik (Peseux, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to an aerosol-generating device. The aerosol-generating device comprises an air inlet. The aerosol-generating device comprises an air outlet. The aerosol-generating device comprises a heating element. The heating element comprises a mesh heater in fluid communication with the air inlet. The aerosol-generating device compris...