Patents Assigned to U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company
  • NICOTIANA NUCLEIC ACID MOLECULES AND USES THEREOF
    Publication number: 20140123987
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2013
    Publication date: May 8, 2014
    Applicant: U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company
    Inventors: Dongmei Xu, Mark T. Nielsen
  • Tobacco Compositions
    Publication number: 20140123986
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2014
    Publication date: May 8, 2014
    Applicant: U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company
    Inventors: James Arthur Strickland, Frank Scott Atchley, James M. Rossman, Armand J. Desmarais, Scott A. Williams, Tod J. Miller, Cherne W. Johnson
  • TOBACCO ARTICLES AND METHODS
    Publication number: 20140123988
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2014
    Publication date: May 8, 2014
    Applicant: U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company
    Inventors: James Arthur Strickland, Frank Scott Atchley
  • Cloning of cytochrome p450 genes from
    Patent number: 8658856
    Abstract: The present invention relates to p450 enzymes and nucleic acid sequences encoding p450 enzymes in Nicotiana, and methods of using those enzymes and nucleic acid sequences to alter plant phenotypes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2014
    Assignee: U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company
    Inventor: Dongmei Xu
  • REDUCTION OF CONSTITUENTS IN TOBACCO
    Publication number: 20140041675
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2013
    Publication date: February 13, 2014
    Applicants: Phasex Corporation, U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company LLC
    Inventors: Val KRUKONIS, Hans SCHONEMANN, Anthony GUDINAS, Paula M. WETMORE, Kara WILLIAMS, Carl H. MIDGETT, Clifford Brown BENNETT, Harry Yizhou ZHENG, Kathleen S. JOHNSTON
  • nucleic acid molecules and uses thereof
    Patent number: 8637731
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company
    Inventors: Dongmei Xu, Mark T. Nielsen
  • Tobacco compositions
    Patent number: 8636011
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company LLC
    Inventors: James A Strickland, Frank S. Atchley, James M. Rossman, Armand J. Desmarais, Scott A. Williams, Tod J. Miller, Cherne W. Johnson, Vernie A. Due
  • Container Device for Tobacco Articles
    Publication number: 20140021077
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2013
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Applicant: U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company
    Inventors: David Karl Bried, James Arthur Strickland, Mark T. Nielsen, Frank Scott Atchley, Lamar Eugene Walters, II, Gregory A. Pace
  • Tobacco compositions
    Patent number: 8627828
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2014
    Assignee: U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company LLC
    Inventors: James A. Strickland, Frank S. Atchley, James M. Rossman, Armand J. Desmarais, Scott A. Williams, Tod J. Miller, Cherne W. Johnson
  • Tobacco articles
    Patent number: 8627827
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2014
    Assignee: U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company
    Inventors: James Arthur Strickland, Frank Scott Atchley
  • Tobacco articles and methods
    Patent number: 8627826
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2014
    Assignee: U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company
    Inventors: James Arthur Strickland, Frank Scott Atchley
  • CLONING OF CYTOCHROME P450 GENES FROM NICOTIANA
    Publication number: 20130326732
    Abstract: The present invention relates to p450 enzymes and nucleic acid sequences encoding p450 enzymes in Nicotiana, and methods of using those enzymes and nucleic acid sequences to alter plant phenotypes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2013
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Applicant: U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company
    Inventor: Dongmei Xu
  • Tobacco nicotine demethylase genomic clone and uses thereof
    Patent number: 8592663
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company LLC
    Inventor: Dongmei Xu
  • nucleic acid molecules and uses thereof
    Patent number: 8586837
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company LLC
    Inventors: Dongmei Xu, Mark T. Nielsen
  • nucleic acid molecules and uses thereof
    Patent number: 8581043
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company LLC
    Inventors: Dongmei Xui, Mark T. Nielsen
  • Container device for tobacco articles
    Patent number: 8556070
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company
    Inventors: David Karl Bried, James Arthur Strickland, Mark T. Nielsen, Frank Scott Atchley, Lamar Eugene Walters, II, Gregory A. Pace
  • Reduction of constituents in tobacco
    Patent number: 8555895
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignees: U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company LLC, Phasex Corporation
    Inventors: Val Krukonis, Hans Schonemann, Anthony Gudinas, Paula M. Wetmore, Kara Williams, Carl H. Midgett, Clifford Brown Bennett, Harry Y. Zheng, Kathleen S. Johnston
  • Container Device for Tobacco Articles
    Publication number: 20130233742
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2013
    Publication date: September 12, 2013
    Applicant: U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company
    Inventors: David Karl Bried, James Arthur Strickland, Mark T. Nielsen, Frank Scott Atchley, Lamar Eugene Walters, II, Gregory A. Pace
  • SMOKELESS TOBACCO ARTICLES
    Publication number: 20130220348
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2013
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Applicant: U.S. SMOKELESS TOBACCO COMPANY LLC
    Inventor: U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company LLC
  • Tobacco compositions
    Patent number: 8469036
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company LLC
    Inventors: Scott A. Williams, James Arthur Strickland, Frank Scott Atchley, Armand J. Desmarais, Tod J. Miller, Cherne W. Johnson, Vernie A. Due