US Patent Issued to Philip Morris Products on June 30 for "Applying an additive from radially outside upon production of an aerosol-generating rod" (Italian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,130, issued on June 30, was assigned to Philip Morris Products S.A. (Neuchatel, Switzerland).

"Applying an additive from radially outside upon production of an aerosol-generating rod" was invented by Fabio Cantieri (Bologna, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device (1) for producing an aerosol-generating rod (3) comprises a converging device (5), a susceptor guide (19), and a conveyor system. The converging device has a forming space converging along an axial direction (17). The susceptor guide extends into the forming space of the converging device and comprises an exit opening (21) for a susceptor (23) within the forming space...