US Patent Issued to Philip Morris Products on March 3 for "Aerosol-generating article having bridging element with reflectance factor" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,212, issued on March 3, was assigned to Philip Morris Products S.A. (Neuchatel, Switzerland).

"Aerosol-generating article having bridging element with reflectance factor" was invented by Alexandre Camus (Colombier, Switzerland), Yalin Ciftcioglu (Peseux, Switzerland) and Levent Lekili (Colombier, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aerosol-generating article (10) comprising a rod (20) comprising an aerosol-generating substrate (22); a filter (30) in axial alignment with the rod (20); a bridging element (40) comprising a first wrapper (42), the first wrapper circumscribing the rod (20) and the filter and securing the filter ...