ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,653,229, issued on June 16, was assigned to Philip Morris Products S.A. (Neuchatel, Switzerland).
"Hybrid aerosol-generating device" was invented by Rui Nuno Rodrigues Alves Batista (Morges, Switzerland), Ricardo Cali (Mannheim, Germany), Valerio Oliana (Pully, Switzerland), Alexandra Sereda (Zurich), Gianluca Bongiovanni (Colombier, Switzerland) and Bekele Alemu Bedasso (Neuchatel, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aerosol-generating system is provided, including an aerosol-generating device for simultaneously generating an aerosol from first and second aerosol-forming substrates, the device including a device housing defini...