ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,900, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Philip Morris Products S.A. (Neuchatel, Switzerland).
"Glass composition" was invented by Mkhitar Hovhannisyan (Yerevan, Armenia), Rafael Hovhannisyan (Yerevan, Armenia) and Sergey Verlinski (Yerevan, Armenia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aerosol-generating device is provided, including: a heater, a component of the heater including a coating, the coating being formed from a glass composition including: between about 30 percent by weight and about 70 percent by weight silicon oxide, between about 0.1 percent by weight and about 10 percent by weight aluminium oxide, between about 2 percent...