Patents Assigned to U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company LLC
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Patent number: 10555551Abstract: Some embodiments of a tobacco article may include tobacco disposed in a porous matrix. The tobacco article may provide tobacco, tobacco constituents, or both tobacco and tobacco constituents to the consumer's mouth in the form of particles, liquid, or vapor so as to provide tobacco satisfaction to the consumer. In some circumstances, the tobacco may be integrally molded with a plastic material so that at least a portion of the tobacco is disposed in pores of the matrix.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2019Date of Patent: February 11, 2020Assignee: U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company LLCInventors: James Arthur Strickland, Frank Scott Atchley
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Publication number: 20190387785Abstract: Some embodiments of a tobacco article may include tobacco disposed in a porous matrix. The tobacco article may provide tobacco, tobacco constituents, or both tobacco and tobacco constituents to the consumer's mouth in the form of particles, liquid, or vapor so as to provide tobacco satisfaction to the consumer. In some circumstances, the tobacco may be integrally molded with a plastic material so that at least a portion of the tobacco is disposed in pores of the matrix.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2019Publication date: December 26, 2019Applicant: U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company LLCInventors: James Arthur STRICKLAND, Frank Scott ATCHLEY
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Publication number: 20190289900Abstract: The present document generally relates to methods and materials involved in producing tobacco or smokeless tobacco product comprising chlorate. For example, chlorate can be used to reduce tobacco specific nitrosamine content in tobacco or smokeless tobacco products.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2019Publication date: September 26, 2019Applicant: U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company LLCInventor: John R. CHIPLEY
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Patent number: 10420366Abstract: Some embodiments of a tobacco article may include tobacco disposed in a porous matrix. The tobacco article may provide tobacco, tobacco constituents, or both tobacco and tobacco constituents to the consumer's mouth in the form of particles, liquid, or vapor so as to provide tobacco satisfaction to the consumer. In some circumstances, the tobacco may be integrally molded with a plastic material so that at least a portion of the tobacco is disposed in pores of the matrix.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2014Date of Patent: September 24, 2019Assignee: U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company LLCInventors: James Arthur Strickland, Frank Scott Atchley
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Patent number: 10357055Abstract: The present document generally relates to methods and materials involved in producing tobacco or smokeless tobacco product comprising chlorate. For example, chlorate can be used to reduce tobacco specific nitrosamine content in tobacco or smokeless tobacco products.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2016Date of Patent: July 23, 2019Assignee: U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company LLCInventor: John R. Chipley
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Publication number: 20190194733Abstract: The present invention features Nicotiana nucleic acid sequences such as sequences encoding constitutive, or ethylene or senescence induced polypeptides, in particular cytochrome p450 enzymes, in Nicotiana plants and methods for using these nucleic acid sequences and plants to alter desirable traits, for example by using breeding protocols.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2019Publication date: June 27, 2019Applicant: U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company LLCInventors: Dongmei Xu, Mark T. Nielsen, Yanxin Shen
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Patent number: 10294520Abstract: The present invention features Nicotiana nucleic acid sequences such as sequences encoding constitutive, or ethylene or senescence induced polypeptides, in particular cytochrome p450 enzymes, in Nicotiana plants and methods for using these nucleic acid sequences and plants to alter desirable traits, for example by using breeding protocols.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2014Date of Patent: May 21, 2019Assignee: U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company LLCInventors: Dongmei Xu, Mark T. Nielsen, Yanxin Shen
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Patent number: 10266836Abstract: The present invention features tobacco nicotine demethylase nucleic acid and amino acid sequences, tobacco plants and plant components containing such sequences, including tobacco plants and plant components having reduced expression or altered enzymatic activity of nicotine demethylase, methods of use of nicotine demethylase sequences to create plants having altered levels of nornicotine or N?-nitrosonornicotine (“NNN”) or both relative to a control plant, as well as tobacco articles having reduced levels of nornicotine or NNN.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2016Date of Patent: April 23, 2019Assignee: U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company LLCInventor: Dongmei Xu
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Patent number: 10098376Abstract: The invention features tobacco compositions and methods of their use and manufacture. Compositions of the invention may be based on a variety of technologies. Technologies include films, tabs, shaped parts, gels, consumable units, insoluble matrices, and hollow shapes. In addition to tobacco, compositions may also contain flavors, colors, and other additives as described herein. Compositions may also be orally disintegrable. Exemplary compositions and methods of their manufacture are described herein.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2012Date of Patent: October 16, 2018Assignee: U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company LLCInventors: James A. Strickland, Frank S. Atchley, James M. Rossman, Armand J. Desmarais, Scott A. Williams, Tod J. Miller, Cherne W. Johnson
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Patent number: 9795165Abstract: Some embodiments of a tobacco product package device can be used to enhance freshness and other characteristics of tobacco products or other products contained therein. Certain features can improve product freshness both during shelf life and during consumer use.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2013Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company LLCInventors: David Karl Bried, James Arthur Strickland, Mark T. Nielsen, Frank Scott Atchley, Lamar Eugene Walters, II, Gregory A. Pace
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Patent number: 9629334Abstract: The present disclosure describes tobacco varieties having reduced levels of DVTs, methods of making such varieties, and tobacco compositions including such varieties.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2015Date of Patent: April 25, 2017Assignee: U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company LLCInventors: Mark T. Nielsen, Marcos F. Lusso, Francis Antoine
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Patent number: 9427019Abstract: Tobacco articles having tobacco disposed in a porous matrix. The tobacco articles can provide tobacco to an adult consumer in the form of particles, liquid, or vapor so as to furnish tobacco satisfaction to the consumer. The tobacco can be integrally molded with a plastic material so that at least a portion of the tobacco is disposed in pores of the matrix.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2013Date of Patent: August 30, 2016Assignee: U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company LLCInventors: Frank Scott Atchley, James Arthur Strickland, James M. Rossman
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Patent number: 9322030Abstract: The present invention features tobacco nicotine demethylase nucleic acid and amino acid sequences, tobacco plants and plant components containing such sequences, including tobacco plants and plant components having reduced expression or altered enzymatic activity of nicotine demethylase, methods of use of nicotine demethylase sequences to create plants having altered levels of nornicotine or N?-nitrosonornicotine (“NNN”) or both relative to a control plant, as well as tobacco articles having reduced levels of nornicotine or NNN.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2013Date of Patent: April 26, 2016Assignee: U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company LLCInventor: Dongmei Xu
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Patent number: 9307787Abstract: A smokeless tobacco product includes a plurality of orally disintegrable granules. Each granule has a core and at least one layer surrounding the core. The at least one layer includes tobacco particles and a binder. Also disclosed are methods of making tobacco granules that comprise a core and at least one layer having tobacco particles and a binder.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2009Date of Patent: April 12, 2016Assignee: U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company LLCInventors: Yan Helen Sun, Frank Scott Atchley
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Patent number: 8807141Abstract: A process is provided for producing smokeless tobacco and/or snuff compositions using steam alone in an open vessel or in combination with pressure and venting to alter organoleptic properties of the smokeless tobacco and/or snuff compositions.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2010Date of Patent: August 19, 2014Assignee: U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company LLCInventors: James C. Breslin, Scott A. Williams, Jerry B. Eilliot, Frank Scott Atchley, Vernie A. Due
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Patent number: 8757167Abstract: A machine for forming, continuously, distinct portions of particulate matter such as smokeless tobacco, i.e., snuff, in a pouch or pocket form, and continuously forming individual pouches or pockets containing the distinct portions of the particulate matter.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 1987Date of Patent: June 24, 2014Assignee: U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company LLCInventors: Edward Jurczenia, Eugene H. Paules, Frank S. Nastro
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Publication number: 20140041675Abstract: Methods of selectively reducing constituents in tobacco as well as the tobacco obtained by such methods are disclosed. Subcritical fluids, e.g., liquid carbon dioxide, serve as the reduction media.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2013Publication date: February 13, 2014Applicants: Phasex Corporation, U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company LLCInventors: Val KRUKONIS, Hans SCHONEMANN, Anthony GUDINAS, Paula M. WETMORE, Kara WILLIAMS, Carl H. MIDGETT, Clifford Brown BENNETT, Harry Yizhou ZHENG, Kathleen S. JOHNSTON
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Patent number: 8636011Abstract: The invention features tobacco compositions and methods of their use and manufacture. Compositions of the invention may be based on a variety of technologies. Technologies include films, tabs, shaped parts, gels, consumable units, insoluble matrices, and hollow shapes. In addition to tobacco, compositions may also contain flavors, colors, and other additives as described herein. Compositions may also be orally disintegrable. Exemplary compositions and methods of their manufacture are described herein.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2008Date of Patent: January 28, 2014Assignee: U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company LLCInventors: James A Strickland, Frank S. Atchley, James M. Rossman, Armand J. Desmarais, Scott A. Williams, Tod J. Miller, Cherne W. Johnson, Vernie A. Due
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Patent number: 8627828Abstract: The invention features tobacco compositions and methods of their use and manufacture. Compositions of the invention may be based on a variety of technologies. Technologies include films, tabs, shaped parts, gels, consumable units, insoluble matrices, and hollow shapes. In addition to tobacco, compositions may also contain flavors, colors, and other additives as described herein. Compositions may also be orally disintegrable. Exemplary compositions and methods of their manufacture are described herein.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2006Date of Patent: January 14, 2014Assignee: U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company LLCInventors: James A. Strickland, Frank S. Atchley, James M. Rossman, Armand J. Desmarais, Scott A. Williams, Tod J. Miller, Cherne W. Johnson
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Patent number: 8592663Abstract: The present invention features tobacco nicotine demethylase nucleic acid and amino acid sequences, tobacco plants and plant components containing such sequences, including tobacco plants and plant components having reduced expression or altered enzymatic activity of nicotine demethylase, methods of use of nicotine demethylase sequences to create plants having altered levels of nornicotine or N?-nitrosonornicotine (“NNN”) or both relative to a control plant, as well as tobacco articles having reduced levels of nornicotine or NNN.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2010Date of Patent: November 26, 2013Assignee: U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company LLCInventor: Dongmei Xu
