ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,933, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Philip Morris Products S.A. (Neuchatel, Switzerland).
"Aerosol-generating system and method using dielectric heating" was invented by Robert Emmett (Neuchatel, Switzerland), Ana Isabel Gonzalez Florez (Neuchatel, Switzerland) and Luca Natali (Bologna, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aerosol-generating system is provided, including an aerosol-generating device and an aerosol-forming substrate, the aerosol-generating device including: a holding and exposing space configured to receive an aerosol-forming substrate; and an electromagnetic field generator configured to generate a radio frequen...