US Patent Issued to Philip Morris Products on July 21 for "Inhaler system with offset piercing" (Swiss Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,831, issued on July 21, was assigned to Philip Morris Products S.A. (Neuchatel, Switzerland).

"Inhaler system with offset piercing" was invented by Onur Dayioglu (Neuchatel, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inhaler system includes a housing defining a housing cavity, a sleeve extending along a sleeve longitudinal axis and positioned within the housing cavity, a capsule is contained within the sleeve and having a capsule longitudinal axis, and a piercing element having only a single shaft extending from a fixed end to a tip along a piercing element longitudinal axis, the piercing element longitudinal axis being parallel w...