ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,745,794, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Philip Morris Products S.A. (Neuchatel, Switzerland).
"Aerosol-generating device and system" was invented by Leander Dittmann (Pully, Switzerland) and Robert Emmett (Neuchatel, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aerosol-generating device is provided, including: a membrane having an aerosol-generation zone, in which the aerosol-generation zone includes a plurality of nozzles, the plurality of nozzles being the only nozzles in the aerosol-generation zone; and an actuator coupled to the membrane, in which the actuator is configured to excite the membrane to induce a vibration of the m...