ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,775, issued on June 2, was assigned to Philip Morris Products S.A. (Neuchatel, Switzerland).

"Substrate for delivering a biologically active substance" was invented by Mari Liova Atabekyan (Yerevan, Armenia), Zoya Melik Farmazyan (Yerevan, Armenia), Stepan Grigor Grigoryan (Yerevan, Armenia), Laurent Lavanant (Evian-les-Bains, France) and Vigen Onik Topuzyan (Yerevan, Armenia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A substrate (12) for delivering a biologically active substance, the substrate (12) comprising: a cross-linked silicone matrix formed by cross-linking a silicone polymer using at least one crosslinking agent comprising a tetraalkoxy...