ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,628,871, issued on May 19, was assigned to Philip Morris Products S.A. (Neuchatel, Switzerland).
"Cartridge for an aerosol generating device" was invented by Rui Nuno Batista (Neuchatel, Switzerland) and Ricardo Cali (Mannheim, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cartridge is provided for an aerosol-generating device, including a mouthpiece body with an outer surface and an inner air channel including an air channel inner surface and a mouthpiece opening at a mouth end of the channel and being an outlet for a first part of a flow of the aerosol accessible to a mouth of a user; a liquid reservoir; and an aerosol generator that is a he...