US Patent Issued to Philip Morris Products on May 5 for "Heater assembly having fluid permeable heater with directly deposited transport material" (Swiss Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,616,246, issued on May 5, was assigned to Philip Morris Products S.A. (Neuchatel, Switzerland).

"Heater assembly having fluid permeable heater with directly deposited transport material" was invented by Irene Taurino (Neuchatel, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heater assembly is provided for an aerosol-generating system, the heater assembly including: a fluid permeable heating element configured to heat a liquid aerosol-forming substrate to form an aerosol, the fluid permeable heating element including a plurality of apertures configured to allow fluid to permeate through the fluid permeable heating element; and a transport ma...