Patents Assigned to U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company
  • 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
  • Container device for tobacco articles
    Patent number: 8458996
    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: August 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 11, 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
  • Cloning of cytochrome p450 genes from
    Patent number: 8436235
    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: October 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignee: U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company
    Inventor: Dongmei Xu
  • TOBACCO PLANTS HAVING REDUCED NICOTINE DEMETHYLASE ACTIVITY
    Publication number: 20130081157
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2012
    Publication date: March 28, 2013
    Applicant: U.S. SMOKELESS TOBACCO COMPANY LLC
    Inventor: U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company LLC
  • TOBACCO PLANTS HAVING REDUCED NICOTINE DEMETHYLASE ACTIVITY
    Publication number: 20130074858
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2012
    Publication date: March 28, 2013
    Applicant: U.S. SMOKELESS TOBACCO COMPANY LLC
    Inventor: U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company LLC
  • Smokeless tobacco articles
    Patent number: 8387623
    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: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company LLC
    Inventors: Frank Scott Atchley, James Arthur Strickland, James M. Rossman
  • Tobacco plants having reduced nicotine demethylase activity
    Patent number: 8319011
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company LLC
    Inventors: Dongmei Xu, Mark T. Nielsen, Yanxin Shen
  • TOBACCO COMPOSITIONS
    Publication number: 20120199149
    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: February 10, 2012
    Publication date: August 9, 2012
    Applicant: 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
  • Cloning of cytochrome p450 genes from
    Patent number: 8188337
    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: September 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company
    Inventor: Dongmei Xu
  • Tobacco compositions and methods of making
    Patent number: 8168855
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes tobacco varieties having reduced levels of DVTs, methods of making such varieties, and tobacco compositions including such varieties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company
    Inventors: Mark T. Nielsen, Marcos F. Lusso, Francis Antoine
  • Fabric Having Tobacco Entangled with Structural Fibers
    Publication number: 20120031416
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2011
    Publication date: February 9, 2012
    Applicant: U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company LLC
    Inventors: Frank Scott Atchley, James M. Rossman, Munmaya K. Mishra
  • COMPOSITE SMOKELESS TOBACCO PRODUCTS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS
    Publication number: 20120031414
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2011
    Publication date: February 9, 2012
    Applicant: U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company LLC
    Inventors: Frank Scott Atchley, James M. Rossman, Munmaya K. Mishra
  • Cloning of cytochrome P450 genes from
    Patent number: 8058504
    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: June 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Assignee: U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company
    Inventor: Dongmei Xu
  • Tobacco Articles and Methods
    Publication number: 20110220133
    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: April 1, 2011
    Publication date: September 15, 2011
    Applicant: U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company LLC
    Inventors: James Arthur Strickland, Frank Scott Atchley
  • Use of chlorate, sulfur or ozone to reduce tobacco specific nitrosamines
    Patent number: 7992575
    Abstract: A method is provided for reducing levels of tobacco specific nitrosamines (TSNA) in tobacco during barn curing. The method includes contacting tobacco with chlorate, sulfur, ozone or combinations thereof in amounts effective for controlling or reducing bacterial an/or fungal populations on or in tobacco.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2011
    Assignee: U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company
    Inventors: Mingwu Cui, Mark T. Nielsen, Robert F. Hart, III, Michael L. Overbey, David J. Watson, John R. Chipley
  • Tobacco articles and methods
    Patent number: 7918231
    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: January 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2011
    Assignee: U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company LLC
    Inventors: James Arthur Strickland, Frank Scott Atchley
  • Tobacco articles and methods
    Patent number: 7913699
    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: January 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2011
    Assignee: U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company LLC
    Inventors: James Arthur Strickland, Frank Scott Atchley
  • Oral tobacco article
    Patent number: D674134
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company LLC
    Inventors: Andrew Nathan Carroll, Shannon Maxwell Black, Tommy C. Holland, Jason Andrew Macko, Christopher Joseph DiNovi
  • Set of oral tobacco articles
    Patent number: D674536
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2013
    Assignee: U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company LLC
    Inventors: Jason Andrew Macko, James Lindsay Clark, Shannon Maxwell Black, Andrew Nathan Carroll, Srinivasan Janardhan
  • Set of oral tobacco articles
    Patent number: D674538
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2013
    Assignee: U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company LLC
    Inventors: Jason Andrew Macko, James Lindsay Clark, Shannon Maxwell Black, Andrew Nathan Carroll, Srinivasan Janardhan