US Patent Issued to Philip Morris Products on Feb. 17 for "Aerosol-generating device with movable upstream cover and downstream cover" (Swiss Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,936, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Philip Morris Products S.A. (Neuchatel, Switzerland).

"Aerosol-generating device with movable upstream cover and downstream cover" was invented by Jun Wei Yim (Colombier, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aerosol-generating device is provided, including: a cavity including a downstream opening for receiving an article and an upstream opening; a movable downstream cover to cover the downstream opening; a movable upstream cover to cover the upstream opening; a cover moving element for one or more of: opening of the upstream cover upon one or both of opening of the downstream cover or ...