US Patent Issued to Philip Morris Products on Sept. 1 for "Cartridge" (Irish, Swiss, Swedish, Norwegian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,721,372, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Philip Morris Products S.A. (Neuchatel, Switzerland).

"Cartridge" was invented by Didier Graf (Salvenach, Switzerland), James Lynch (Dublin), Jimmy Rennick (Sandymount, Ireland), Giovanna Landi (Mur, Switzerland), Morten Grosfjeld (Sellebakk, Norway), Alexandra Linden (Linkoping, Sweden), Peter Norrby (Mjolby, Sweden), Przemyslaw Romanow (Peseux, Switzerland), Eoin McNally (Dublin) and Bryan Murphy (County Dublin, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cartridge includes a body with a side wall and at least one lid arranged to cover a top or a bottom, or both. The cartridge comprises a cavity...