US Patent Issued to Philip Morris Products on May 5 for "Heating element having heat conductive and wicking filaments" (German, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,616,245, issued on May 5, was assigned to Philip Morris Products S.A. (Neuchatel, Switzerland).

"Heating element having heat conductive and wicking filaments" was invented by Stefan Butenkemper (Oelde, Germany), Detlef John (Oelde, Germany) and Ihar Nikolaevich Zinovik (Neuchatel, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heating element for an aerosol-generating system is provided, the heating element including: a plurality of first filaments; and a plurality of second filaments, in which the plurality of first filaments are configured to heat a liquid aerosol-forming substrate, the plurality of second filaments are configured to conve...