US Patent Issued to Philip Morris Products on Nov. 3 for "Aerosol-generating article including upstream element" (Italian, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,188, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Philip Morris Products S.A. (Neuchatel, Switzerland).

"Aerosol-generating article including upstream element" was invented by Massimiliano Bertoldo (Castel Maggiore, Italy), Gianpaolo D'Ambra (Castel Maggiore, Italy), Edoardo Montanari (Bologna, Italy), Ivan Prestia (Calderara di Reno, Italy) and Paola Orsolini (Neuchatel, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aerosol-generating article is provided for producing an inhalable aerosol upon heating, the aerosol-generating article including: a rod of aerosol-generating substrate including a gel composition, the gel composition including at le...