US Patent Issued to Philip Morris Products on Feb. 10 for "Method and system to monitor tobacco material to detect insect infestation" (Swiss, Italian, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,773, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Philip Morris Products S.A. (Neuchatel, Switzerland).

"Method and system to monitor tobacco material to detect insect infestation" was invented by Rui Nuno Rodrigues Alves Batista (Morges, Switzerland), Ricardo Cali (Mannheim, Germany), Ivan Prestia (Calderara di Reno, Italy) and Alexandra Sereda (Neuchatel, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method to monitor tobacco material to detect insect infestation, the method comprising: -providing tobacco material in a closed space; -measuring the concentration of a semiochemical in the air present in the clos...