69 patents
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
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11 May 23
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: 9 Jan 23
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13 Apr 23
An electrically heated aerosol generating system for receiving an aerosol-forming substrate includes at least one electric heater for heating the aerosol-forming substrate to form the aerosol.
Michel Thorens, Jean-Marc Flick, Olivier Yves Cochand, Flavien Dubief
Filed: 4 Nov 22
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13 Apr 23
An apparatus and processes for producing compound cigarette filters by horizontally assembling multiple filter segments onto the horizontally oriented transverse flutes of a continuous belt.
Michael S. Braunshteyn, Raquel M. Olegario
Filed: 12 Dec 22
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13 Apr 23
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: 12 Dec 22
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26 Jan 23
An indirectly heated capillary aerosol generator comprises a capillary tube adapted to form an aerosol when liquid material in the capillary tube is heated to volatilize at least some of the liquid material therein and a thermally conductive material in thermal contact with the capillary tube.
Marc D. BELCASTRO, Jeffrey A. SWEPSTON
Filed: 7 Oct 22
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5 Jan 23
A replacement abstract is included on the final page of this document.
Olivier GREIM, Felix FERNANDO, Charles HIGGINS
Filed: 1 Sep 22
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8 Dec 22
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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1 Dec 22
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: 4 Aug 22
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17 Nov 22
A smokeless tobacco product or medicinal nicotine product includes nicotine and camphor dissolved in a non-flavored oily carrier.
Gerd KOBAL, Prasad POLUR, Maria GOGOVA, Diana MCKINNEY
Filed: 24 May 22