Patents Examined by Dennis R. Cordray
  • Paper products subjected to a surface treatment comprising enzyme-treated surface enhanced pulp fibers and methods of making the same
    Patent number: 11608596
    Abstract: Methods of making a paper product can comprise forming a substrate from a first furnish that comprises a plurality of pulp fibers, at least partially dewatering the substrate, treating a second furnish that comprises a plurality of surface enhanced pulp fibers (SEPF) at least by adding one or more enzymes to the second furnish, and sizing the dewatered substrate at least by depositing the treated second furnish onto at least one of opposing first and second surfaces of the dewatered substrate. The SEPF can have a length weighted average fiber length that is greater than or equal to 0.20 millimeters (mm) and an average hydrodynamic specific surface area that is greater than or equal to 10 square meters per gram (m2/g).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignees: Domtar Paper Company, LLC, The University of British Columbia
    Inventors: Harshad Pande, Alexander Timothy Beam, Mark Martinez, Jingqian Chen, Miaoran Li, Heather Trajano
  • Filler for smoking article
    Patent number: 11602160
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a filler for a smoking article, a smoking article comprising the filler for a smoking article, and a method for manufacturing the filler for a smoking article. In one embodiment, the filler according to the present invention for a smoking article, said filler comprising a gel which contains a gelling agent and one or more gelation promoters, is characterized by having a tap density of 0.05 g/cm3 or less and a degree of suitability to compression filling of more than 60. In one embodiment, the filler according to the present invention for a smoking article is characterized by comprising a gel which contains pectin having an esterification degree of 12% or less and one or more gelation promoters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: JAPAN TOBACCO INC.
    Inventors: Riho Nagai, Yasunobu Inoue, Hideki Nagae, Masanari Makino
  • Biodegradable filter with improved taste
    Patent number: 11589608
    Abstract: A filter for a smoking article has improved biodegradability and improved taste during smoking of the smoking article. The filter includes a segment having a filtration substrate including natural cellulose fibres, and a wrapper at least partly surrounding the segment. The filtration substrate contains a composition including an additive for reducing phenols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Inventor: Ryo Kitaoka
  • Non-sticking tipping paper, preparation method and application method of the same
    Patent number: 11591496
    Abstract: A non-sticking lip tipping paper is disclosed that includes a base paper, a color layer and a surface coating. The color layer is formed by printing and drying a color ink on the base paper; the surface coating includes a water-based glue and is coated thereon after drying the color layer. The water-based glue includes the following components by weight: 30-65 parts of a modified water-based resin solution, 10-20 parts of water, 8-15 parts of ethanol, and 5-12 parts of a water-based additive. The water-based additive is a mixture of a wax emulsion and magnesium silicate in a weight ratio of 1:5. A preparation method and a method of applying the non-sticking lip tipping paper are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: China Tobacco Yunnan Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ji Yang, Zhihua Liu, Ruizhi Zhu, Chunbo Liu, Nengjun Xiang, Pei He, Xiaoxi Si, Fengmei Zhang, Shiyun Tang, Wei Jiang, Zhenjie Li, Zhongbi Su, Chen Yang, Kunming Jiang
  • Moisture control material
    Patent number: 11584575
    Abstract: Method of manufacturing an active moisture control material, wherein the material is formed from a base board comprising cellulose fibers and having a basis weight in the range of from 50 to 500 g/m2 and having a bulk of at least 1.2 cm3/g, wherein the method comprises a surface treatment of at least one side of said base board with a surface treatment composition comprising carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC) and a metal salt, wherein said surface treatment composition comprises carboxymethyl cellulose in a range of from 2 to 10 weight-% based on the total solid content of said surface treatment composition, and the metal salt in a range of from 10 to 30 weight-% based on the total solid content of said composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Stora Enso OYJ
    Inventor: Simo Siitonen
  • Modular tobacco industry product
    Patent number: 11576426
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a modular tobacco industry product (6). The modular tobacco industry product comprises a first rod (9) comprising a first smokeable material and a hollow channel (8), and a second rod (7) comprising a second smokeable material. The hollow channel is configured to receive the second rod, the second rod being insertable into the hollow channel by a consumer. The present invention also relates to a kit for assembling a modular tobacco industry product, a rod of smokeable material configured to be inserted into a hollow channel of a first rod, and a package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: BRITISH AMERICAN TOBACCO (INVESTMENTS) LIMITED
    Inventors: David Rushforth, Paul Blachford
  • Flavour system
    Patent number: 11576429
    Abstract: There is provided a flavour system for use in a tobacco industry product. The flavour system comprises lyophilised botanical material, an activator capable of releasing flavourant from the lyophilised botanical material through contact of the activator with the lyophilised botanical material, and a removable barrier preventing contact between the lyophilised botanical material and the activator. The barrier is removable to permit the activator to contact the lyophilised botanical material, thereby to cause release of the flavourant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: BRITISH AMERICAN TOBACCO (INVESTMENTS) LIMITED
    Inventors: Matthew Knight, Ianto Davies, Alex Renouf, Aaron Brookbank, Ignacio Suarez Yanez, Karl Fellbrich
  • Smoking article filter and method of manufacturing the same
    Patent number: 11576428
    Abstract: A smoking article filter comprising: a filter material having a circular cylinder shape with first and second end surfaces and a side surface, and including a corrugated film with ridge portions and valley portions arranged alternately, the ridge portions and valley portions extending from the first end surface to the second end surface to form a plurality of air flow paths that allow air to flow from the first end surface to the second end surface; a plurality of particles arranged in the air flow paths; and a filter wrapping paper wrapping the filter material such that the side surface is covered with the filter wrapping paper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: JAPAN TOBACCO INC.
    Inventors: Michihiro Inagaki, Hiroshi Shibuichi
  • Article for use with an apparatus for heating an aerosol generating agent
    Patent number: 11571527
    Abstract: An article for use with an apparatus for heating aerosol generating agent to volatilize at least one component of the aerosol generating agent, the article including a support layer having a first surface, wherein at least a portion of the first surface is rough and an aerosol generating agent on the portion of the first surface that is rough.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: Nicoventures Trading Limited
    Inventors: Kaveh Ghanouni, Richard Hepworth, Walid Abi Aoun, Karl Kaljura, Thomas David Leah, Shasa Harris
  • Simulated cigarette
    Patent number: 11553732
    Abstract: A simulated cigarette having an elongated hollow cylinder and having a cavity there within, with a cylindrical wick disposed in the cavity, the wick having a radial clearance and longitudinal clearance with respect to the cavity for allowing the wick to freely slide along a longitudinal direction of the cavity. The simulated cigarette having a fan assembly disposed in the cavity adjacent wick and in an alternate embodiment having a flexible filter affixed to an end of the hollow cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Harmless Products, LLC
    Inventors: Nossen K. Levilev, Chaim Levilev
  • Nicotine pouch product
    Patent number: 11540557
    Abstract: A nicotine pouched product is disclosed, the nicotine pouched product having a pouch composition and a pouch membrane enclosing the pouch composition, the pouch composition including at least one water-insoluble fiber, water in an amount of at least 15% by weight of the composition, and nicotine, wherein the pouch membrane comprises further nicotine in an amount of at least 15% by weight of a total content of nicotine in the pouched product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Philip Morris Products S.A.
    Inventors: My Ly Lao Stahl, Heidi Ziegler Bruun, Bruno Provstgaard Nielsen, Bine Hare Jakobsen
  • Fabric having tobacco entangled with structural fibers
    Patent number: 11540560
    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: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Altria Client Services LLC
    Inventors: Frank Scott Atchley, James M. Rossman, Munmaya K. Mishra
  • Smoking article
    Patent number: 11528933
    Abstract: In one aspect an aerosol-generating device comprising a smoking article and a heat source is described. The smoking article includes a smokable material and a cooling agent, the smokable material including a tobacco component. The heat source is disposed to heat, but not burn the smokable material in use. The cooling agent comprises a compound or a combination of compounds according to either of the following formulae, racemates, enantiomers and salts thereof (I, II).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: NICO VENTURES TRADING LIMITED
    Inventors: Pablo Javier Ballesteros Gomez, Jeremy Phillips, Mark Forster, Hans-Josef Chadjim
  • Hookah assembly and components of the hookah assembly
    Patent number: 11470876
    Abstract: A hookah or hookah assembly preferably having a lid including one or more sealing members that seal and releasably lock the lid to a liquid retaining tank such that when lid is connected to the liquid retaining tank the lid and liquid retaining tank can be moved as a unit by gripping any portion of the lid or the tank. The hookah preferably includes one or more openings that allow vapor to be exhausted through one or more openings formed in the lid. The hookah preferably includes a seal operably connected to a lower surface of the lid and engages an upper and horizontally extending surface of the liquid retaining tank. The hookah may include a down stem which has an integral diffuser configured to significantly reduce the operational noise level of the hookah while significantly reducing the number of openings necessary in the diffuser to achieve quite operation of the hookah.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Inventor: Alexander Zouev
  • Tissue paper product and tissue paper product package
    Patent number: 11473246
    Abstract: A moisturizing tissue product that can be packaged in the same way as a non-moisturizing tissue product. With this tissue paper product, in which a web obtained by folding and laminating in a pop-up configuration a plurality of sheets of tissue paper containing a moisturizing agent is stored in a rectangular-shaped paper box having an outlet on an upper surface thereof, the problem of the tissue paper is solved by this tissue paper product in which the number of plies is 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: DAIO PAPER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shuta Yasui
  • Tissue paper product and tissue paper product package
    Patent number: 11459166
    Abstract: A moisturizing tissue product that can be packaged in the same way as a non-moisturizing tissue product. With this tissue paper product in which a web obtained by folding and laminating in a pop-up configuration a plurality of sheets of tissue paper containing a moisturizing agent is stored in a rectangular-shaped paper box having an outlet on an upper surface thereof, the problem of the tissue paper is solved by this tissue paper product in which the number of plies is 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: DAIO PAPER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shuta Yasui
  • Method for manufacturing paper, device for manufacturing additive for manufacturing paper, and device for manufacturing paper
    Patent number: 11459702
    Abstract: Provided are a method for manufacturing paper with which it is possible to easily manufacture paper wherein water-filterability and yield are excellent and hydrophilia is suppressed without using a cationic polymer or silica, a device for manufacturing an additive for manufacturing paper, and a device for manufacturing paper. The method for manufacturing paper is a method having a reactant generating step for generating a reactant by subjecting an acrylamide polymer to a Hoffman elimination reaction, and a supply step for supplying the reactant to a paper machine within 24 hours of the start of the Hoffman elimination reaction. The acrylamide polymer preferably includes an acrylamide polymer having a intrinsic viscosity of 12.5-28 dl/g and anionization of 0.3 meq/g or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: KURITA WATER INDUSTRIES LTD.
    Inventor: Jiayi Chen
  • Hookah bowl
    Patent number: 11445748
    Abstract: A hookah bowl. The hookah bowl includes a bowl with a lower stem disposed on a bottom surface of the bowl. The lower stem secures the bowl to an upper end of a reservoir of a hookah pipe. The bowl also has a central receiver disposed upwardly from a center portion of the bowl which is in fluid communication with the reservoir. The central receiver receives a smoking material, such as tobacco. The bowl further includes a ring around a circumference of the central receiver which receives a heating material, such as charcoal. The bowl has a collar disposed upwardly from an outer perimeter of the bowl which can reflect heat towards the central receiver. The hookah bowl can be used to efficiently heat a smoking material while containing consumed materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Inventor: Raid Hilala
  • Apparatus and method for processing wood fibers
    Patent number: 11421382
    Abstract: A refining member including a refining body with a refining surface including first and second refiner bars separated by first and second refiner grooves. The first and second refiner bars extend from respective first and second radially inward positions to respective first and second radially outward positions. The first and second refiner bars have a respective first and second height extending upward from a floor of a respective, adjacent first or second refiner groove. The second height is a minimum height of the second refiner bars and is spaced apart from the second radially inward position, with the second height being at least about 0.35 mm less than the first height. The first refiner bars are adapted to refine wood fibers and the second refiner bars are adapted to break up fiber bundles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL PAPER COMPANY
    Inventor: Dwight Edward Anderson
  • Tobacco mousse
    Patent number: 11412774
    Abstract: A foam includes a tobacco ingredient containing agent and/or an inhalable agent, an aerosol forming agent, a foam stabilizing agent, and a foam forming agent. In one embodiment, a weight of the tobacco ingredient containing agent and/or the inhalable agent is 0.1-33 wt.-% of a weight of the foam, and a weight of the aerosol forming agent is 10-80 wt. % of the weight of the foam. In another embodiment, the foam forming agent is a non-protein contain polysaccharide and a weight of the foam forming agent is less than 20 wt.-% of the foam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Inventors: Michael Plattner, Takashi Hasegawa