US Patent Issued to Philip Morris Products on June 23 for "Cleaning tool with a torque limiter" (Swiss, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,660,862, issued on June 23, was assigned to Philip Morris Products S.A. (Neuchatel, Switzerland).

"Cleaning tool with a torque limiter" was invented by Rui Nuno Batista (Morges, Switzerland), Ricardo Cali (Mannheim, Germany) and Antoine Zuend (Le Locle, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a cleaning tool for an aerosol-generating device. The cleaning tool comprises a cleaning head and a handle. At least a part of the cleaning head is rotatably mounted in the handle. The cleaning tool further comprises at least one suspension element arranged between the cleaning head and the handle. The suspension element ...