156 patents
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Utility
Bead feeder
24 Feb 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: 25 Feb 13
Utility
Immobilized diluents for smoking articles
27 Jan 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: 12 Feb 17
Utility
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22 Jan 20
A portioned moist tobacco product with a super-hydrated membrane coating and method of manufacturing is disclosed.
Munmaya K. Mishra, William R. Sweeney, Shensheng Liu, Kenneth A. Newman, Steven J. Hovjacky
Filed: 26 Sep 19
Utility
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20 Jan 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: 30 Apr 17
Utility
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18 Dec 19
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 heating element.
Felix FERNANDO, Franck Pourrat, Jean-Pierre Cordey
Filed: 26 Aug 19
Utility
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4 Dec 19
A consumable tobacco film strip adapted to dissolve in the oral cavity includes a tobacco component, a binder, a humectant, and optionally a flavorant.
Susan E. Wrenn, Maria Carolina Marun
Filed: 18 Aug 19
Utility
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4 Dec 19
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: 14 Aug 19
Utility
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2 Dec 19
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 Golob, Stephen G. Zimmermann
Filed: 8 Nov 16
Utility
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2 Dec 19
A system and method for distribution of product price and/or sales data in a retail establishment.
William R. Sweeney
Filed: 23 Apr 17
Utility
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27 Nov 19
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: 16 Jul 19
Utility
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25 Nov 19
Wrapper for cigarette manufacture includes transversely extending band regions applied by a printing technique, such as gravure printing.
Ping Li, Firooz Rasouli, Rajesh K. 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 Sep 15
Utility
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25 Nov 19
A smoking system includes a capillary wick for holding liquid, at least one air inlet, at least one air outlet and a chamber between the air inlet and air outlet.
Michel Thorens, Jean-Marc Flick, Olivier Yves Cochand, Flavien Dubief
Filed: 21 Mar 16
Utility
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25 Nov 19
An intermetallic or iron aluminide magnetically readable medium and a method of forming and reading the same are provided herein.
Seetharama C. Deevi, Kudumboor Venkat Rao, Valter Strom, Ziyan Gu
Filed: 6 Jul 14
Utility
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9 Oct 19
An insect trap useful for trapping flying insects, the insect trap comprising an upper housing including at least one horizontal row of light emitting diodes extending across an outer surface of a curved front wall such that light from each of the light emitting diodes is projected outwardly from the upper housing at a different angle than adjacent light emitting diodes in the horizontal row of light emitting diodes, a base housing including an opening through which insects can enter an interior of the base housing, and an insect trapping element facing the opening in the base housing.
Lizbel I. Cajigas, Hoc V. Nguyen, Peter Edde, Anh N. Dinh, David Gabriel Bustos
Filed: 3 Apr 18
Utility
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2 Oct 19
A reclosable container for consumer items includes a box, a lid hingedly connected to the box, an inner liner wrapped around the consumer items, the inner liner including a section defining an opening for allowing access to the consumer items, means to open and reclose the opening, and an inner frame attached to the box.
Bodo-Werner Lutzig
Filed: 18 Jun 19
Utility
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30 Sep 19
A portioned moist tobacco product with a super-hydrated membrane coating and method of manufacturing is disclosed.
Munmaya K. Mishra, William R. Sweeney, Shensheng Liu, Kenneth A. Newman, Steven J. Hovjacky
Filed: 19 Feb 18