US 12,465,090 B2
Aerosol-generating article and device for identifying a smoking article
Patrick Debergh, Cressier (CH); Akihiro Kondoh, Geneva (CH); and Grzegorz Aleksander Pilatowicz, Grens (CH)
Assigned to JT International SA, (CH)
Appl. No. 18/009,535
Filed by JT International SA, Geneva (CH)
PCT Filed Jun. 1, 2021, PCT No. PCT/EP2021/064721
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Dec. 9, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/249835, PCT Pub. Date Dec. 16, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 20179616 (EP), filed on Jun. 12, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0346038 A1, Nov. 2, 2023
Int. Cl. A24F 40/40 (2020.01); A24D 1/02 (2006.01); A24D 1/04 (2006.01); A24D 1/20 (2020.01); A24F 40/20 (2020.01); A24F 40/50 (2020.01); A24F 40/51 (2020.01); A24F 40/53 (2020.01); A24F 40/60 (2020.01); G01D 5/34 (2006.01)
CPC A24F 40/51 (2020.01) [A24D 1/02 (2013.01); A24D 1/20 (2020.01); A24F 40/20 (2020.01); A24F 40/53 (2020.01); G01D 5/34 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An aerosol-generating article, comprising a consumable section attached to a mouthpiece section,
wherein said mouthpiece section comprises at least one inner tube and a wrapper, wherein the at least one inner tube is arranged inside the wrapper, and
wherein the mouthpiece section further comprises a machine-readable pattern representing a coded data comprising a plurality of light transmitting apertures extending over at least a length in a wall of said at least one inner tube, said plurality of light transmitting apertures being arranged along a circumference and/or a longitudinal direction of said at least one inner tube.