US Patent Issued to Philip Morris Products on July 28 for "Heater for aerosol-generating device with hollow susceptor pin" (Swiss, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,359, issued on July 28, was assigned to Philip Morris Products S.A. (Neuchatel, Switzerland).

"Heater for aerosol-generating device with hollow susceptor pin" was invented by Rui Nuno Rodrigues Alves Batista (Morges, Switzerland), Ricardo Cali (Mannheim, Germany) and Edward Kiernan (La Croix-sur-Lutry, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heater assembly for an aerosol-generating device is provided, including a heating chamber configured to heat an aerosol-forming substrate; an evacuated air-tight hollow pin arranged centrally within the heating chamber; and a susceptor layer on an outer surface of the evacuated air-tight hol...