US Patent Issued to Philip Morris Products on July 14 for "Aerosol-generating device with leak prevention" (German, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,677,869, issued on July 14, was assigned to Philip Morris Products S.A. (Neuchatel, Switzerland).

"Aerosol-generating device with leak prevention" was invented by Ricardo Cali (Mannheim, Germany), Teemu Maattanen (Bern, Switzerland) and Thomas Salvador (Tiefenbach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aerosol-generating device has a receptacle configured to receive an aerosol-generating substrate; a heating element configured to heat the aerosol-generating substrate; a power supply operably coupled to the heating element; a vessel comprising an interior configured to contain liquid; and a conduit in fluid communication with the vess...