ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,924, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Philip Morris Products S.A. (Neuchatel, Switzerland).
"Method for checking an aerosol-generating article for manufacturing defects" was invented by Luca Natali (Milan) and Matteo Balboni (Milan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for checking an aerosol-generating article for manufacturing defects, comprising: -recording several 2-dimensional surface profiles of the aerosol-generating article while rotating the aerosol-generating article, -combining several surface profiles recorded at different rotation angles to obtain a 3-dimensional surface profile, calculating a ...