ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,581, issued on March 17, was assigned to Philip Morris Products S.A. (Neuchatel, Switzerland).
"Aerosol-generating device" was invented by Silviu Pantea (Arad, Romania), Enrico Stura (Palezieux-Village, Switzerland), Mathias Torsten Rickard Tingstrom (Morges, Switzerland) and Valerio Oliana (Pully, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aerosol-generating device for heating an aerosol-forming substrate to generate an inhalable aerosol during a usage session is provided, the device including: control electronics; and a lighting array including a plurality of light emitters, the control electronics to independently control each...