ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,201, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Philip Morris Products S.A. (Neuchatel, Switzerland).
"Liquid-conveying susceptor assembly for conveying and inductively heating an aerosol-forming liquid" was invented by Jerome Christian Courbat (Cortaillod, Switzerland), Oleg Mironov (Cudrefin, Switzerland) and Ozgur Ozsun (Kilchberg, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid-conveying susceptor assembly is provided for conveying and inductively heating an aerosol-forming liquid under an influence of an alternating magnetic field, the assembly including: an array of inductively heatable longitudinal filaments arranged side by side; a...