Patents Assigned to U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company LLC
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Patent number: 8586837Abstract: 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: April 19, 2010Date of Patent: November 19, 2013Assignee: U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company LLCInventors: Dongmei Xu, Mark T. Nielsen
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Patent number: 8581043Abstract: 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: April 7, 2010Date of Patent: November 12, 2013Assignee: U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company LLCInventors: Dongmei Xui, Mark T. Nielsen
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Patent number: 8555895Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 15, 2010Date of Patent: October 15, 2013Assignees: U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company LLC, Phasex CorporationInventors: Val Krukonis, Hans Schonemann, Anthony Gudinas, Paula M. Wetmore, Kara Williams, Carl H. Midgett, Clifford Brown Bennett, Harry Y. Zheng, Kathleen S. Johnston
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Publication number: 20130220348Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2013Publication date: August 29, 2013Applicant: U.S. SMOKELESS TOBACCO COMPANY LLCInventor: U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company LLC
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Patent number: 8469036Abstract: 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: November 5, 2004Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Assignee: U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company LLCInventors: Scott A. Williams, James Arthur Strickland, Frank Scott Atchley, Armand J. Desmarais, Tod J. Miller, Cherne W. Johnson, Vernie A. Due
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Publication number: 20130081157Abstract: The present invention generally relates to methods and materials involved in producing tobacco plants having reduced levels of conversion of nicotine to nornicotine. In certain embodiments, the invention is directed to mutations in a nicotine demethylase gene, tobacco plants comprising mutations in a nicotine demethylase gene, and tobacco compositions and products thereof. In other embodiments, the invention is directed toward nicotine demethylase RNA interference, tobacco plants comprising a nicotine demethylase RNA interference transgene, and tobacco compositions and products thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 26, 2012Publication date: March 28, 2013Applicant: U.S. SMOKELESS TOBACCO COMPANY LLCInventor: U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company LLC
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Publication number: 20130074858Abstract: The present invention generally relates to methods and materials involved in producing tobacco plants having reduced levels of conversion of nicotine to nomicotine. In certain embodiments, the invention is directed to mutations in a nicotine demethylase gene, tobacco plants comprising mutations in a nicotine demethylase gene, and tobacco compositions and products thereof. In other embodiments, the invention is directed toward nicotine demethylase RNA interference, tobacco plants comprising a nicotine demethylase RNA interference transgene, and tobacco compositions and products thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2012Publication date: March 28, 2013Applicant: U.S. SMOKELESS TOBACCO COMPANY LLCInventor: U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company LLC
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Patent number: 8387623Abstract: 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: December 30, 2009Date of Patent: March 5, 2013Assignee: U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company LLCInventors: Frank Scott Atchley, James Arthur Strickland, James M. Rossman
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Patent number: 8319011Abstract: The present invention generally relates to methods and materials involved in producing tobacco plants having reduced levels of conversion of nicotine to nornicotine. In certain embodiments, the invention is directed to mutations in a nicotine demethylase gene, tobacco plants comprising mutations in a nicotine demethylase gene, and tobacco compositions and products thereof. In other embodiments, the invention is directed toward nicotine demethylase RNA interference, tobacco plants comprising a nicotine demethylase RNA interference transgene, and tobacco compositions and products thereof.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2009Date of Patent: November 27, 2012Assignee: U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company LLCInventors: Dongmei Xu, Mark T. Nielsen, Yanxin Shen
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Publication number: 20120199149Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2012Publication date: August 9, 2012Applicant: 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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Publication number: 20120031416Abstract: A smokeless tobacco product includes smokeless tobacco and structural fibers. The structural fibers forming a network in which the smokeless tobacco is entangled. The structural fibers have a composition different from the smokeless tobacco. The tobacco-entangled fabric can have an overall oven volatiles content of at least 10 weight percent. In some embodiments, the structural fibers form a nonwoven network. In some embodiments, fibrous structures of the smokeless tobacco are entangled with the structural fibers.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2011Publication date: February 9, 2012Applicant: U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company LLCInventors: Frank Scott Atchley, James M. Rossman, Munmaya K. Mishra
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Publication number: 20120031414Abstract: A smokeless tobacco product includes smokeless tobacco and a polymeric material in intimate contact with the smokeless tobacco and stabilized in conformance to a surface topography of the tobacco's fibrous structures such that the stabilized polymeric material secures the smokeless tobacco together. The smokeless tobacco product has a moisture-permeable porous surface and an overall oven volatiles content of at least 10 weight percent.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2011Publication date: February 9, 2012Applicant: U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company LLCInventors: Frank Scott Atchley, James M. Rossman, Munmaya K. Mishra
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Publication number: 20110220133Abstract: 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: April 1, 2011Publication date: September 15, 2011Applicant: U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company LLCInventors: James Arthur Strickland, Frank Scott Atchley
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Patent number: 7918231Abstract: 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 23, 2007Date of Patent: April 5, 2011Assignee: U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company LLCInventors: James Arthur Strickland, Frank Scott Atchley
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Patent number: 7913699Abstract: 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 23, 2007Date of Patent: March 29, 2011Assignee: U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company LLCInventors: James Arthur Strickland, Frank Scott Atchley
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Patent number: D674134Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2010Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company LLCInventors: Andrew Nathan Carroll, Shannon Maxwell Black, Tommy C. Holland, Jason Andrew Macko, Christopher Joseph DiNovi
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Patent number: D674536Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2010Date of Patent: January 15, 2013Assignee: U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company LLCInventors: Jason Andrew Macko, James Lindsay Clark, Shannon Maxwell Black, Andrew Nathan Carroll, Srinivasan Janardhan
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Patent number: D674538Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2010Date of Patent: January 15, 2013Assignee: U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company LLCInventors: Jason Andrew Macko, James Lindsay Clark, Shannon Maxwell Black, Andrew Nathan Carroll, Srinivasan Janardhan