US Patent Issued to Philip Morris Products on July 28 for "Concentration of wet tobacco extracts" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,607, issued on July 28, was assigned to Philip Morris Products S.A. (Neuchatel, Switzerland).

"Concentration of wet tobacco extracts" was invented by Marie Farine (Neuchatel, Switzerland), Felix Frauendorfer (Neuchatel, Switzerland), Sebastien Lanaspeze (Neuchatel, Switzerland), Stefan Lauenstein (Neuchatel, Switzerland), Christel Raphoz (Neuchatel, Switzerland), Patrick Charles Silvestrini (Neuchatel, Switzerland) and Steve Tzimoulis (Neuchatel, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing a concentrated tobacco extract for an aerosol-generating article is provided, including: providing a natural tobacco mate...