US Patent Issued to PHILIP MORRIS USA on May 12 for "Article including identification information for use in an electrically heated smoking system" (British, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,260, issued on May 12, was assigned to PHILIP MORRIS USA INC. (Richmond, Va.).

"Article including identification information for use in an electrically heated smoking system" was invented by Felix Fernando (Berkshire, Great Britain) and Jean-Pierre Cordey (Cheseaux, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A smoking article includes identification information encoded on the smoking article. The smoking article can be used with an electrically heated smoking system having a detector for detecting the smoking article and distinguishing the smoking article from other articles based on the identification information. A cleaning article ...