156 patents
Utility
Article Including Identification Information for Use In an Electrically Heated Smoking System
18 Jan 24
A smoking article includes identification information encoded on the smoking article.
Felix FERNANDO, Jean-Pierre CORDEY
Filed: 31 Jul 23
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Smoking article with manually releasable odorant
16 Jan 24
A smoking article has an outer surface and a plurality of frangible microcapsules provided on the outer surface, wherein the microcapsules are capable of being manually ruptured by a consumer to release an odorant encapsulated therein.
Clement Besso, Anne Wyss-Peters, Charles Kuersteiner
Filed: 23 Apr 21
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Elongate heater for an electrically heated aerosol-generating system
16 Jan 24
An electrically heated aerosol-generating system for receiving an aerosol-forming substrate includes a heating element including a first electrically conductive element electrically insulated from a second electrically conductive element by an electrically insulating portion.
Olivier Greim, Julien Plojoux, Dani Ruscio
Filed: 16 Aug 22
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Banded Papers, Smoking Articles and Methods
4 Jan 24
Wrapper for cigarette manufacture includes transversely extending band regions applied by a printing technique, such as gravure printing.
Ping LI, Firooz RASOULI, Rajesh GARG, Randall E. BAREN, Marc W. ROSE, Peter J. LIPOWICZ, Tony A. PHAN, Timothy S. SHERWOOD, Szu-Sung YANG, Donald E. MISER, Milton E. PARRISH
Filed: 14 Sep 23
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Electrically heated aerosol generating system and method
5 Dec 23
An electrically heated aerosol generating system for receiving an aerosol-forming substrate includes at least one heating element for heating the substrate to form the aerosol and a power supply for supplying power to the at least one healing element.
Felix Fernando, Franck Pourrat, Jean-Pierre Cordey
Filed: 4 Jan 22
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Heating array with heating elements arranged in elongated array
5 Dec 23
The heating array includes first heating elements arranged in an elongated array, the first heating elements spanning from a first end to a second end of the elongated array, a midsection of each one of the first heating elements bowing concentrically outward from a radial centerline running longitudinally through the first end and the second end, the first heating elements being configured to flex concentrically inward when a hoop force is applied to sides of the elongated array.
Olivier Greim, Felix Fernando, Charles Higgins
Filed: 1 Sep 22
Utility
Immobilized Diluents for Smoking Articles
23 Nov 23
Immobilized diluents in a smoking article are provided, wherein diluents can be immobilized through absorption and/or adsorption of the diluents into immobilizing materials, such as sorbents like silica gels.
Shuzhong ZHUANG, Georgios D. KARLES
Filed: 31 Jul 23
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Electrically heated smoking system
21 Nov 23
An electrically heated smoking system includes a secondary unit capable of receiving a smoking article having an aerosol-forming substrate.
Felix Fernando, Marc-Robert Chemla, Fredrik Stahle
Filed: 13 Dec 21
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Gamma Cyclodextrin Flavoring-release Additives
2 Nov 23
Electrically heated cigarettes used in an electrical smoking system include a flavoring-release additive and sorbent effective to remove one or more gas-phase constituents of mainstream tobacco smoke.
Munmaya K. MISHRA, Susan E. Wrenn, Jay A. Fournier
Filed: 23 May 23
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Cultured Tobacco Cells As a Matrix for Consumable Products
2 Nov 23
Various embodiments are directed to consumable products incorporating a matrix of cultured tobacco cells.
Alec J. HAYES, Maria SHULLEETA, Jason W. FLORA
Filed: 5 Jul 23
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Controlled Release Mentholated Tobacco Beads
26 Oct 23
Encapsulated tobacco beads and processes of making the encapsulated tobacco beads are disclosed.
Georgios D. KARLES, Shuzhong ZHUANG, Yi ZENG
Filed: 29 Jun 23
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Method and apparatus for storage of data for manufactured items
24 Oct 23
Exemplary embodiments are directed to a method and apparatus for storing data for a batch of manufactured items.
Erwan Fradet, Alain Sager, Patrick Mauroux, Patrick Chanez, Philippe Chatelain
Filed: 17 Jul 19
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Capsule clusters for oral consumption
17 Oct 23
An oral product includes a matrix including a mixture of a plurality of capsules, a powdered component, a viscous component and a binder and wherein the matrix is molded into a shape.
Danielle R. Crawford, Shon Gedevani, William R. Sweeney, Chris Irving
Filed: 26 Aug 20
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Soft, Chewable and Orally Dissolvable And/or Disintegrable Products
12 Oct 23
A soft, chewable and orally dissolvable and/or disintegrable product includes a biopolymer-sugar based matrix and botanical powder dispersed throughout the biopolymer-sugar based matrix.
Feng GAO, Shalva GEDEVANISHVILI, Shengsheng LIU, Munmaya K. MISHRA, William R. SWEENEY, Randall BAREN, Qinglin LI, Darin COLASSACO, Salem CHOUCHANE
Filed: 15 Jun 23
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Method and Apparatus for Identifying, Authenticating, Tracking and Tracing Manufactured Items
5 Oct 23
A method and apparatus for identifying manufactured items in containers, where each container is suitable for containing two or more units, and where the method comprises the steps of: associating each unit with a unique unit identifier, uniquely identifying each unit, allocating two or more units to be contained in each container, uniquely identifying each container, for each container, determining one or more ranges of unit identifiers of the two or more units allocated to the container, and storing, in a database, a container identifier for each container, each container identifier being coupled, in the database, to the one or more ranges of unit identifiers of the two or more units allocated to the container.
Patrick CHANEZ, Alain SAGER, Philippe CHATELAIN, Erwan FRADET
Filed: 7 Jun 23
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Immobilized diluents for smoking articles
3 Oct 23
Immobilized diluents in a smoking article are provided, wherein diluents can be immobilized through absorption and/or adsorption of the diluents into immobilizing materials, such as sorbents like silica gels.
Shuzhong Zhuang, Georgios D. Karles
Filed: 19 Dec 19
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High Speed Poucher
28 Sep 23
An apparatus and methods for producing at extremely high production speeds small pouches filled with tobacco or other granular, powdered or solid content is provided.
Martin T. GARTHAFFNER, Dwight D. WILLIAMS, Jeremy J. STRAIGHT, Carl G. MILLER, David J. WEBB
Filed: 5 Jun 23
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Method and Apparatus for Producing Pouched Tobacco Product
28 Sep 23
In a method and apparatus for producing a small pouch with a predetermined amount of particulate material therein, a predetermined amount of the particulate material is portioned from a bulk supply and compacted into a single discrete caplet.
Martin T. GARTHAFFNER, Barry S. SMITH
Filed: 1 Jun 23
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Electrically heated smoking system with internal or external heater
26 Sep 23
An electrically heated smoking system for receiving an aerosol forming substrate includes a heater for heating the substrate to form the aerosol.
Gerard Zuber, Olivier Greim, Julien Plojoux, Dani Ruscio
Filed: 9 Sep 20
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Thermoformable Multilayer Films and Blister Packs Produced Therefrom
21 Sep 23
A multi-layer film structure for use in forming blister packaging.
Stephen J BELLAMAH, Ed CARMINES, Rangaraj S. SUNDAR
Filed: 16 May 23