Patents Examined by Christopher M Rodd
  • Patent number: 12144371
    Abstract: A device for use while burning smoking material and inhaling the resulting smoke is disclosed. The device can include a filter comprising a filter element having a shaped rim structure and a recess formed in a surface of a body of the filter along a curved face extending from the first end to the second end, the recess extending radially into the body. The smoking accessory can include a capsule containing a flavoring agent disposed within the recess. The device may be received by a first end a tubular member formed to receive a smoking material, that when burned passes smoke into the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: Good Tree International, Inc.
    Inventors: Kunal Shoor, Brandon Puett, Remberto Andres Estrella Gomez
  • Patent number: 12144369
    Abstract: A tubular element for an aerosol-generating article is provided, the tubular element including: a wrapper that forms a first longitudinal passageway; and a gel comprising an active agent, the wrapper including paper, the wrapper being water-resistant, the gel including an active agent including an aerosol former, and the gel including the active agent includes between 60 percent and 95 percent by weight of glycerol. An aerosol-generating article including a tubular element, and a method of manufacturing a tubular element, are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: Philip Morris Products S.A.
    Inventors: Gennaro Campitelli, Gianpaolo D'Ambra, Onur Dayioglu
  • Patent number: 12138831
    Abstract: An injection mold for producing a sprinkler head part and related injection molding methods are described. The sprinkler head part includes a first, second, third and fourth mold portions. The first and second mold portions include first and second shaping elements structured to cooperatively form a body including a substantially cylindrical portion and a substantially planar portion, and two frame arms extending from the substantially planar portion of the body. The third mold portion includes a shaping element structured to form an orifice in the body of the sprinkler head. The fourth mold portion includes a shaping element structured to form a cross member connecting the two frame arms. The injection methods include injecting a composite material in molten form into the mold to form the molded sprinkler head part. The composite material includes thermoplastic polymeric resin and a plurality of reinforcing fibers dispersed in the resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Tyco Fire Products LP
    Inventors: William K. Rucker, Manuel R. Silva, Jr., Lyle J. Miller, Daniel Cross, Steven L. Shields, Jose L. Almeida
  • Patent number: 12137724
    Abstract: A method of producing a liquid tobacco extract is provided, the method including the steps of: preparing a tobacco starting material including natural tobacco material such that during the step of preparing the tobacco starting material, the tobacco is not subjected to any treatment adapted to alter the pH of the tobacco; heating the tobacco starting material in a flow of inert gas at an extraction temperature of between 125 degrees Celsius and 160 degrees Celsius for between 90 minutes and 270 minutes; collecting volatile compounds released from the natural tobacco starting material during the heating step; and forming a liquid tobacco extract comprising the collected volatile compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Philip Morris Products S.A.
    Inventors: Matteo Biasioli, Marie Farine, Felix Frauendorfer, Jagoda Kuc, Sebastien Lanaspeze, Stefan Lauenstein, Benoit Mivelaz, Christel Raphoz, Patrick Charles Silvestrini, Steve Tzimoulis
  • Patent number: 12137744
    Abstract: Provided is an aerosol generating device including a cartridge comprising: an atomizer heating an aerosol generating material to generate aerosol; a mouthpiece through which the generated aerosol is released to outside; a main body accommodating the cartridge; and a sensor configured to detect release of the aerosol to the outside; wherein a first air channel is formed between the cartridge and the main body and guides external air introduced through an air inlet to the mouthpiece through the atomizer, and wherein a second air channel is formed in the main body such that the first air channel and the second air channel are in fluid communication, and wherein the sensor detects the release of the aerosol to the outside based on a change in air flow rate or air pressure of the second air channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: KT&G CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jong Sub Lee, Sung Rok Oh
  • Patent number: 12138850
    Abstract: Methods of additive manufacture using coreactive components are disclosed. Thermosetting compositions for additive manufacturing are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: PPG Industries Ohio, Inc.
    Inventors: David Robert Fenn, Kurt G. Olson, Reza M. Rock, Cynthia Kutchko, Susan Donaldson, Anthony J. Fogl
  • Patent number: 12138963
    Abstract: A tyre with a tread band having a plurality of blocks. The blocks include three-dimensional sipes extending in a direction incident to an advance direction of the tyre. Each sipe separates a block into a first block portion having a first surface facing the advance direction, and into a second block portion having a second surface facing the direction counter to the advance direction. Male/female couplings are provided between the first and the second block portions, the couplings formed by protuberances on the first surface and extending towards the second block portion, and by recesses on the second surface and extending away from the first block portion. The protuberances formed on the first surface have an apex that is spaced apart from the tread surface by no more than 40% of the depth of the three-dimensional sipe, measured at the apex.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: PIRELLI TYRE S.P.A.
    Inventors: Diego Speziari, Vito Bello, Stefano Montesello
  • Patent number: 12137723
    Abstract: Compositions configured for oral use, the compositions including at least one active ingredient selected from caffeine, taurine, GABA, theanine, tryptophan, vitamin B6, vitamin B12, vitamin C, lemon balm extract, ginseng, citicoline, sunflower lecithin, or combinations thereof, are provided. The compositions include one or more fillers, including a sugar alcohol, and optionally, a lipid or binder. The compositions may be in chewable, tablet, or meltable forms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: NICOVENTURES TRADING LIMITED
    Inventors: Anthony Richard Gerardi, Ross Jay Oden, Matthew Evan Lampe, Kristen Ann Spielbauer, Michael Andrew Zawadzki
  • Patent number: 12137732
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a vehicle powered electronic hookah system that is designed to be used by a driver or passenger while driving an automobile and while obviating the need to use traditional charcoal for heating the tobacco. The hookah system includes a coil pack for heating tobacco to produce smoke for consumption by a consumer. The coil pack can be provided power using an electronic supply such as a vehicle's electronic power using a cigarette lighter plug or USB connector. Alternatively, a built-in rechargeable battery can be used for providing power to the coil. These power sources obviate the use of charcoal for heating the tobacco and maintain a clean and sanitary smoking area without worry of ashes. The hookah system can be placed in a cupholder in the vehicle and can be rotated in any direction for convenient use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Inventor: Pserda Dickerson
  • Patent number: 12137737
    Abstract: The invention relates to an aerosol-generating device comprising a cavity (10) for receiving an aerosol-generating article (12) containing aerosol-forming substrate (18). The device further comprises a resilient sealing element (38) having a ring shape. The resilient sealing element is arranged surrounding a downstream end of the cavity. The resilient sealing element is configured to interact with the aerosol-generating article received in the cavity by abutting the aerosol-generating article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Philip Morris Products S.A.
    Inventors: Rui Nuno Batista, Ricardo Cali
  • Patent number: 12133553
    Abstract: A vapor generator assembly for an e-vaping device may include a reservoir configured to hold a pre-vapor formulation, a vaporizer assembly configured to heat pre-vapor formulation drawn from the reservoir to form a vapor, and an air intake assembly configured to direct ambient air into the vaporizer assembly. The air intake assembly may at least partially define an air inlet that extends at least partially around an outer surface of the vapor generator assembly. The air inlet may be an arcuate air inlet or an annular air inlet. The air intake assembly may at least partially define an inlet channel extending from the air inlet into an interior of the vapor generator assembly to at least partially establish fluid communication between the arcuate air inlet and the vaporizer assembly. The inlet channel may extend coaxially in relation to a longitudinal axis of the vapor generator assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: Altria Client Services LLC
    Inventors: Eric Hawes, Raymond W. Lau, Mik Dahl, Jon Jarantilla, Galen Salvador, Jose Jesus Paolo Montalvan, Jeroen Kok
  • Patent number: 12133548
    Abstract: A machine for making a continuous tubular element with filling from web material, including first and second means for feeding respective continuous webs, a forming station configured to perform a folding and/or deformation of a first continuous web in a shaped configuration, and a wrapping station wherein the second continuous web is wound in a tubular shape around the first continuous shaped web to obtain the continuous tubular element. Upstream of the wrapping station there is a first gluing device configured to apply at least one longitudinal line of glue on at least one of the continuous webs in such a way as to define at least one gluing zone, said longitudinal line of glue being positioned in such a way as to coincide with a zone of superposing and contact between the two continuous webs feeding out of the wrapping station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: G.D S.p.A.
    Inventors: Ivan Eusepi, Nicola Baldanza, Marco Esposti, Gennaro Rizzo, Giuliano Gamberini
  • Patent number: 12133559
    Abstract: A method of preventing unauthorized use of an aerosol provision device may include receiving a wireless signal including an unlock code for unlocking the aerosol provision device, processing the wireless signal to determine host device characterization information or environmental context information, tuning processing circuitry to process the unlock code based on the host device characterization information or environmental context information, and transitioning the aerosol provision device from a locked state to an unlocked state responsive to processing the unlock code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: RAI STRATEGIC HOLDINGS, INC.
    Inventors: Sean Daugherty, Sean Lukan, Robert Logan Garris, Keith Anderson
  • Patent number: 12127587
    Abstract: An electronic vaporizer has an upper section that has an upper housing. The upper section also retains a right cartridge. The right cartridge is retained within the upper housing. The right cartridge further includes a right heater, a right tank, and a right chimney. A cartridge is retained within the upper housing. The left cartridge further includes a left heater, a left tank and a left chimney. The left cartridge is parallel to the right cartridge. A lower section has a lower housing. A battery is retained in the lower housing. The battery is configured to activate the right heater and the left heater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Inventor: Xiao Liang
  • Patent number: 12127580
    Abstract: Provided herein is a composition for use in a device for generating an inhalable medium, the composition including (a) 20-40% by weight of air-cured and/or fire-cured tobacco, (b) 0-35% by weight of flue-cured and/or sun-cured tobacco that has not been subjected to any further treatment which affects the flavor properties of tobacco, and (c) 25-80% by weight of flue-cured and/or sun-cured tobacco that has been further treated to enhance the flavor properties of tobacco.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: NICOVENTURES TRADING LIMITED
    Inventor: Joseph Sutton
  • Patent number: 12121057
    Abstract: Disclosed is a smoking substitute consumable insertable into a smoking substitute device in at least a first orientation and a second orientation. The consumable comprising: an electrical contact configured to interface with a corresponding electrical contact of the smoking substitute device, the electrical contact located at a contact end of the consumable; and at least one data contact region configured to interface with at least one corresponding data contact region of the smoking substitute device for data exchange when the smoking substitute consumable is inserted into the smoking substitute device in either the first orientation or the second orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Imperial Tobacco Limited Bristol
    Inventors: Pete Lomas, Oliver Talbot
  • Patent number: 12121055
    Abstract: A cigarette for an aerosol generating device includes a tobacco rod including an aerosol generating substrate wrapped with a wrapper and a filter through which an aerosol generated from the aerosol generating substrate passes. The filter comprises cellulose acetate tow having a total denier of a preset value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: KT&G CORPORATION
    Inventors: Man Seok Seo, Jin Chul Yang, Soo Ho Kim, Jong Yeol Kim
  • Patent number: 12121059
    Abstract: A vaporizer cartridge includes: a body including a storage compartment configured to hold a vaporizable material, the body having a first end and a second end opposite the first end, the body having a mouthpiece positioned at the first end and the second end being configured for insertion into a receptacle of the vaporizer device; a heating element configured to vaporize the vaporizable material; a vapor tube extending between the heating element and the mouthpiece; a seal insertable at the second end within the storage compartment of the body, the seal configured to retain the vaporizable material within the storage compartment and having interior surfaces inclined from a distal end of the seal toward the heating element for funneling the flow of the vaporizable material within the storage compartment towards the heating element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2024
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Loft Labs, LLC
    Inventors: Martin Steinbauer, Andrew Ryan
  • Patent number: 12121060
    Abstract: A vaporizer cartridge includes: a body including a storage compartment configured to hold a vaporizable material, the body having a first end and a second end opposite the first end, the body having a mouthpiece positioned at the first end and the second end being configured for insertion into a receptacle of the vaporizer device; a heating element configured to vaporize the vaporizable material; a vapor tube extending between the heating element and the mouthpiece; a seal insertable at the second end within the storage compartment of the body, the seal configured to retain the vaporizable material within the storage compartment and having interior surfaces inclined from a distal end of the seal toward the heating element for funneling the flow of the vaporizable material within the storage compartment towards the heating element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2024
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Loft Labs, LLC
    Inventors: Martin Steinbauer, Andrew Ryan
  • Patent number: 12122112
    Abstract: A bead-apex stitching device, a bead-apex station and a method for stitching an apex to a bead are disclosed, wherein the bead-apex stitching device includes a first set of first stitching members distributed in a circumferential direction about a central axis for stitching the apex to the bead and a second set of second stitching members for stitching the apex to the bead in a manner different from the first stitching members of the first set, wherein the second stitching members of the second set are distributed in an alternating pattern with the first stitching members of the first set in the circumferential direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: VMI HOLLAND B.V.
    Inventors: Willem Marinus Van Beek, Timen Anton Van Werven