156 patents
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Production of wax capsules containing liquid hydrophilic cores
17 Aug 20
Provided is a method for cooling wax after coextrusion to create wax capsules.
Hongwei Liu, Georgios D. Karles, Shuzhong Zhuang
Filed: 28 May 08
Utility
Oral Pouch Product Having Soft Edge and Method of Making
29 Jul 20
An oral pouch product having a soft edge includes an inner filling material enclosed inwardly of at least one seam between opposed layers of porous pouch wrapper.
Fernando L. CHAPPELL, Danielle R. CRAWFORD
Filed: 16 Apr 20
Utility
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22 Jul 20
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: 2 Apr 20
Utility
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20 Jul 20
Disclosed is a copolymer that includes a repeat unit containing a flavorant-containing pendant and a salt-containing repeating unit.
Shengsheng Liu, Munmaya K. Mishra, Peter J. Lipowicz, Biao Duan
Filed: 15 Nov 15
Utility
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8 Jun 20
An aerosol generator device for delivering an aerosol of a nicotine salt includes a mouth end; a first chamber containing a porous material wetted with liquid nicotine, a second chamber containing a porous material wetted with a solution of a volatile acid, a third chamber in fluid communication with the first and second chambers, leading to the mouth end, and an outer housing defining a passageway for air through said device.
Peter Lipowicz
Filed: 30 Nov 17
Utility
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20 May 20
A bead feeder serially delivering beads to a downstream location comprises a bead supply wheel connected to rotate about a vertical axis.
Martin T. GARTHAFFNER, Dwight D. WILLIAMS
Filed: 22 Jan 20
Utility
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18 May 20
A package of smokeless tobacco includes a flavor patch located in the package to provide flavor to smokeless tobacco.
Andrew N. Carroll, Steven J. Hovjacky, Beverley C. Woodson
Filed: 29 Apr 18
Utility
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13 May 20
Improved delivery of additive materials to cigarettes is provided through the use of one or more capsules containing additive materials, such as flavor components, in the filter section of a cigarette.
Georgios Karles, Martin Garthaffner, Richard Jupe, Diane Kellogg, Ila Skinner, Jose Nepomuceno, John Layman, Constance Morgan, Jay A. Fournier
Filed: 12 Jan 20
Utility
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6 May 20
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: 18 Dec 19
Utility
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4 May 20
An oral pouch product having a soft edge includes an inner filling material enclosed inwardly of at least one seam between opposed layers of porous pouch wrapper.
Fernando L. Chappell, Sr., Danielle R. Crawford
Filed: 11 Jan 18
Utility
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22 Apr 20
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: 22 Dec 19
Utility
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22 Apr 20
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: 20 Oct 19
Utility
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13 Apr 20
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: 19 Dec 18
Utility
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23 Mar 20
Cigarettes are provided which contain a filtering system and flavorants encapsulated with polyvinyl acetate, wherein deactivation of a sorbent by the flavorant is reduced through the encapsulation of the flavorant within the polyvinyl acetate.
Ulrike Becker, Tony Howell, Lixin Xue, Georgios D. Karles, Jay A Fournier
Filed: 10 Nov 16
Utility
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18 Mar 20
An oral pouched product comprising a pouch containing moist botanical beads comprising compacted loose, fibrous moist botanical material and method of manufacture thereof.
Diane L. GEE, David R. GOLOB, Stephen G. ZIMMERMANN
Filed: 24 Nov 19
Utility
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2 Mar 20
Flavorants are emulsified in tobacco-derived lipids and encapsulated with biopolymers and polysaccharides.
Tapashi Sengupta, Munmaya K. Mishra, Douglas A. Fernandez, William R. Sweeney, Tony M. Howell
Filed: 15 Aug 17
Utility
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26 Feb 20
A system and method for distribution of product price and/or sales data in a retail establishment.
William R. Sweeney
Filed: 28 Oct 19
Utility
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24 Feb 20
A process for preparing an orally-enjoyable film of encapsulated plant material includes combining particles of finely divided plant material, a first coating material, and a second coating material, then inducing gelation to form a gel matrix of the particles coated with the first coating material embedded in the second coating material, followed by forming a film from the gel matrix.
Tapashi Sengupta, Munmaya K. Mishra, William R. Sweeney
Filed: 26 Oct 15
Utility
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24 Feb 20
Improved delivery of additive materials to cigarettes is provided through the use of one or more capsules containing additive materials, such as flavor components, in the filter section of a cigarette.
Georgios Karles, Martin Garthaffner, Richard Jupe, Diane Kellogg, Ila Skinner, Jose Nepomuceno, John Layman, Constance Morgan, Jay A. Fournier
Filed: 20 Jul 09
Utility
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24 Feb 20
A system, method, computer program product, and mobile receiving station for receiving and processing leaf tobacco at a location of a tobacco farmer, including processing the tobacco leaf at the location, including means for weighing and grading of the received tobacco leaf and, optionally, determining moisture content and transmitting information relating to the optionally determined moisture content, the weight, and the grade of the received tobacco leaf to a tobacco product manufacturing facility over a communications link.
Hal L. Teegarden, David Scott Ray, John Stewart Livesay, Isidro Gomez
Filed: 17 Dec 14