87 patents
Utility
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
Utility
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
Utility
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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
Utility
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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
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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
Utility
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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
Utility
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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
Utility
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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
Utility
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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
Utility
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15 Aug 23
Encapsulated tobacco beads and processes of making the encapsulated tobacco beads are disclosed.
Georgios D. Karles, Shuzhong Zhuang, Yi Zeng
Filed: 31 Jul 18
Utility
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15 Aug 23
A smoking article includes identification information encoded on the smoking article.
Felix Fernando, Jean-Pierre Cordey
Filed: 1 Dec 20
Utility
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8 Aug 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: 4 Aug 22
Utility
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1 Aug 23
A multi-layer film structure for use in forming blister packaging.
Stephen J. Bellamah, Ed Carmines, Rangaraj S. Sundar
Filed: 3 Sep 20
Utility
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1 Aug 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: 11 Feb 21
Utility
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25 Jul 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: 9 Sep 21
Utility
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18 Jul 23
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: 6 Mar 20
Utility
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18 Jul 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, David J. Webb, Carl G. Miller
Filed: 23 Jun 22
Utility
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4 Jul 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: 3 Jun 22
Utility
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4 Jul 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 Dec 19
Utility
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24 Jan 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: 22 May 19