US Patent Issued to Philip Morris Products on Oct. 20 for "Susceptor and method for the manufacture thereof" (Italian, Swiss, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,772,348, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Philip Morris Products S.A. (Neuchatel, Switzerland).

"Susceptor and method for the manufacture thereof" was invented by Frederic Ulysse Buehler (Neuchatel, Switzerland), Fabio Cantieri (Bologna, Italy), Onur Dayioglu (Neuchatel, Switzerland), Michele Lorenzelli (Bologna, Italy), Cyrille Poindron (Cruseilles, France) and Enrico Pietrobuoni (Casalecchio di Reno, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing a susceptor for an inductively heatable aerosol-generating article includes the steps of providing a band of susceptor material and providing a compression stage. The compre...