US Patent Issued to Philip Morris Products on Aug. 4 for "Aerosol-generating system with improved electrical connector" (Singaporean, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,746, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Philip Morris Products S.A. (Neuchatel, Switzerland).

"Aerosol-generating system with improved electrical connector" was invented by Sze Chiek Aw (Singapore), Teck Yan Chan (Singapore), Dani Ruscio (Cressier, Switzerland) and Yeong Taur Eow (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrically operated aerosol-generating system is provided, including: an aerosol-generating device; a charging unit to receive the device; and first and second connector parts, the device having one of the first and the second connector parts and the charging unit having the other one of the first and the second p...