Patents Examined by Michael H Wilson
  • Patent number: 11950626
    Abstract: A filling method and process for a flower cartridge for use with a portable electronic heating device for the smokeless delivery of active ingredients and volatile compounds released from heating natural consumables such as plant matter is disclosed. Through grinding, vibration, and tamping, a number of cartridges are filled with natural consumables. Compressive forces applied via tamping, coupled with a constriction or obstruction within the cartridge, form a porous plug to which air flows freely but the consumables remain in place. The filling process minimizes oxidation and preserves the shelf life of the flower cartridge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: SWISHER INTERNATIONAL, INC.
    Inventors: Michael Lee Simpson, Matthew James Bickerton
  • Patent number: 11937629
    Abstract: An apparatus arranged to heat smokable material to volatilize at least one component of the smokable material. The apparatus includes a housing, the housing having a first opening at a first end through which a consumable article containing smokable material can be removably inserted into the apparatus; at least one heater arrangement arranged within the housing for heating smokable material within the consumable article when in use and a hollow chamber between the first opening and the at least one heater arrangement. The hollow chamber surrounds at least a portion of the consumable article when the consumable article is inserted into the device and an inner wall of the chamber and the at least a portion of the consumable article define an air gap there between. Hot vapors that escape the consumable article in use can condense on the inner wall of the hollow chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: NICOVENTURES TRADING LIMITED
    Inventor: Mitchel Thorsen
  • Patent number: 11918039
    Abstract: Described is a hookah device. The hookah device includes a unique hookah head and consumable pod. The hookah head includes a bowl portion with a pod recess formed therein to receive a consumable pod. An electronic heating mechanism is positioned within the hookah head for heating the consumable pod. An air pathway is formed through the hookah head to introduce air into the consumable pod and direct smoke from the consumable pod into a hookah body. The consumable pod is similarly formed to fit within the hookah head. Further, the consumable pod includes a pod inlet and pod outlet for directing air through the pod and through the hookah device for inhalation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: ADALSIA LIMITED
    Inventors: Artyom Khachatryan, Mikhail Broyan, John Michael Elam, Alexander Gilbert, Jackson Hedden, Frank Tyneski
  • Patent number: 11877590
    Abstract: The invention provides a smokeless tobacco composition that contains bleached tobacco material and guar gum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: FIEDLER & LUNDGREN AB
    Inventor: Andinet Amare Gessesse
  • Patent number: 11849755
    Abstract: A stem screening and conditioning device includes a roller, a thermal insulation cover, a spiral feeding device, a compressed-air cleaning device, a steam tube, a discharge hole, and a waste hole. A stem screening and conditioning method for the stem screening and conditioning device is also provided. The present disclosure realizes the complete separation of normal-size and undersized stems under the premise of full moisture absorption, thereby improving the refinement and homogenization level of stem conditioning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: CHINA TOBACCO YUNNAN INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD
    Inventors: Ze Liu, Zeyu Wang, Yuanzhen Zhou, Xuefeng Zhu, Tiansheng Dai
  • Patent number: 11844372
    Abstract: The specification discloses a hookah head defined by a sidewall. The sidewall has a bottom end and a top end. The top end forms an upper surface, which preferably is made of metal. An air channel runs from the upper surface to the bottom end of the body. The air channel has a top end corresponding to the upper surface and a bottom end that corresponds to the bottom end of the body. The interior wall forms the cylinder that defines the air channel. The body of the hookah head defines a cavity configured to contain a quantity of liquid. The bottom end of the air channel is configured to be fitted on top of an air channel of the hookah body, with the air channel of the hookah head then having air communication with the grommet of the hookah device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Inventors: Ahmad Alkum, Nael Azazi, Ahmed Shaikh
  • Patent number: 11800894
    Abstract: A shisha device (10) comprises an aerosol-generating element (11) for receiving an aerosol-forming substrate (12). The shisha device also comprises a vessel (17) spaced from the aerosol-generating element and defining an interior for housing a volume of liquid. The vessel comprises a head space outlet (15). The shisha device also comprises an aerosol conduit (21) positioned between the aerosol-generating element and the interior of the vessel. The aerosol conduit comprises a proximal end portion defining a proximal opening (24) positioned to receive airflow from the aerosol-generating element, a distal end portion defining a distal opening (26) positioned in the interior of the vessel, and a ventilation opening (30) positioned between the proximal and distal end portions. A ratio between the total aperture area of the ventilation opening and a transverse cross-sectional area of the aerosol conduit positioned proximate to the ventilation opening is at most 1:1000.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Philip Morris Products S.A.
    Inventors: Felix Fernando, David Cross, Terence John Wilby, Ana Isabel Gonzalez Florez, Ian Sparrow
  • Patent number: 11785979
    Abstract: A flavour delivery system for tobacco includes a flavour material entrained in a zeolite material and forming a core and a wax material encapsulating the core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Philip Morris Products S.A.
    Inventors: Jan-Carlos Hufnagel, Monika Christlbauer, Irene Chetschik, Reiner Daiminger, Marcus Petermann, Andreas Kilzer, Zeljko Knez, Zoran Novak, Amra Perva Uzunalic, Simon Henske, Neven Tutnjević, Radoslav Jonak, Andrej Nose, Urban Fegus
  • Patent number: 11730203
    Abstract: An electromagnetic heating smoking paraphernalia capable of evenly heating tobacco particles includes a tobacco particle heating tank, wherein the tobacco particle heating tank includes a metal inductive cylinder and a tight coil, a space between the metal inductive cylinder and the tight coil is a tobacco particle holding cavity; an end of the tobacco particle holding cavity is provided with an upper end wall, the upper end wall is provided with an upper end wall vent hole, the other end of the tobacco particle holding cavity is provided with a lower end wall, the lower end wall is provided with a lower end wall vent hole; the tight coil means that adjacent turns of the coil are tightly placed close to each other in a longitudinal axial direction without a gap; an inner wall of the metal inductive cylinder is provided with an inner wall vent hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: CHINA TOBACCO YUNNAN INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD
    Inventors: Jingmei Han, Xudong Zheng, Jianguo Tang, Ru Wang, Zhiqiang Li, Ping Lei, Shanzhai Shang, Xu Zeng, Chengya Wang, Dalin Yuan, Zhiyong Sun, Yongkuan Chen
  • Patent number: 11678698
    Abstract: A handheld hookah includes a gas valve assembly including a gas valve and a central shaft. The gas valve includes a first air duct and a second air duct. The central shaft includes a third air duct and a fourth air duct. The first air duct and the second air duct each includes a first end and a second end. When in use, the handheld hookah is placed vertically and added with water, a liquid level of the water is lower than that of the first end of the second air duct, but higher than that of the second end of the first air duct. The first end of the first air duct is connected to the third air duct so that the smoke goes into the first air duct from the third air duct. The second end of the first air duct is disposed in the water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Inventor: Tuanfang Liu
  • Patent number: 11672275
    Abstract: The present application is directed to a cigar holder that rests against a cigar to effectively clamp the cigar in a partially open clamp rested position. The cigar holder includes a top portion of a clamp with a cavity in which a material is disposed which is different from a material of the top portion of the clamp, a bottom portion of the clamp with a cavity in which the material is disposed, and a hinge disposed between the top portion of the clamp and the bottom portion of the clamp with a pass-through slot for an axis pin disposed inside a torsion spring with its torsion spring arms resting on both the top portion of the clamp and the bottom portion of the clamp.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: STYNGER INC.
    Inventors: Richard Arellano, Ray Sadler
  • Patent number: 11653419
    Abstract: The cartridge for the aerosol-generating system includes a housing defining an air inlet and an air outlet and an airflow path defined within the housing. The cartridge includes an atomizer assembly with an aerosol-generating element that is fluid permeable, and two electrical contact portions connected to the aerosol-generating element. The aerosol-generating element has a first side and a second side opposite the first side, wherein the first side of the aerosol-generating element is exposed to the airflow path and the second side of the aerosol-generating element is in contact with a liquid. The cartridge includes the mount that contains the atomizer assembly, where the mount covers a first portion of the first side of the aerosol-generating element to isolate the electrical contact portions from the airflow path, and covers at least a portion of the second side of the aerosol-generating element to isolate the electrical contact portions from the liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Altria Client Services LLC
    Inventors: Patrick Charles Silvestrini, Ihar Nikolaevich Zinovik, Guillaume Frederick
  • Patent number: 11617229
    Abstract: The cartridge for the aerosol-generating system includes a housing defining an air inlet and an air outlet and an airflow path defined within the housing. The cartridge includes an atomizer assembly with an aerosol-generating element that is fluid permeable, and two electrical contact portions connected to the aerosol-generating element. The aerosol-generating element has a first side and a second side opposite the first side, wherein the first side of the aerosol-generating element is exposed to the airflow path and the second side of the aerosol-generating element is in contact with a liquid. The cartridge includes the mount that contains the atomizer assembly, where the mount covers a first portion of the first side of the aerosol-generating element to isolate the electrical contact portions from the airflow path, and covers at least a portion of the second side of the aerosol-generating element to isolate the electrical contact portions from the liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Altria Client Services LLC
    Inventors: Patrick Charles Silvestrini, Ihar Nikolaevich Zinovik, Guillaume Frederick
  • Patent number: 11612702
    Abstract: Devices, cartridges, and method are described herein for emulating smoking wherein a device generates an aerosol for inhalation by a subject by heating a viscous material that can have a tactile response in the mouth or respiratory tract, while reducing Hoffman analytes and mutagenic compounds delivered to the user as compared to a common tobacco cigarette.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: JUUL Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: Adam Bowen, James Monsees
  • Patent number: 11602162
    Abstract: According to some examples, a water pipe can include a body with a top end section, a bottom end section and an opening at the top end section. The opening can be angled with respect to a vertical axis. Additionally, the body of the water pip can include a well extending from the opening to the bottom end section, and an indent extending from the top end section to the bottom end section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Session Corp.
    Inventors: Esther Joy LeNoir, Vinh Do Pho, Camden Lee Foley, Samuel Timothy Davis Bertain
  • Patent number: 11571026
    Abstract: An electronic cigarette comprises a battery portion which is operable to provide power to a heating element of the electronic cigarette, and a cartomizer coupled with the battery portion. The cartomizer comprises a liquid container which provides a liquid toward the heating element wherein the liquid is used for producing and flavoring a vapor of the electronic cigarette when the liquid is heated by the heating element, and a memory which is operable to record and store an amount of the liquid remaining in the liquid container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: Altria Client Services LLC
    Inventor: Nehemia Amir
  • Patent number: 11571018
    Abstract: Disclosure is an aerosol generating article having a low temperature burning heat source, including a low temperature burning smoking set and a matching cigarette, the smoking set includes a heat insulation sleeve, an annular heat conductive barrel, a cover and a heat source cigarette lighter; the barrel is provided in an annular mounting groove at a left section of an inner wall of the sleeve, the cover is provided at a left end of the sleeve, a cavity of the barrel is filled with the heat source in a sealed manner; a plurality of electric heating columns are provided at a right end of the lighter; the cover is provided with a plurality of insertion holes, and after the plurality of electric heating columns are inserted into the plurality of insertion holes, the lighter gets in contact with the barrel to ignite the heat source in the barrel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: CHINA TOBACCO ANHUI INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shun Zhou, Xiaofeng Wang, Chenghu Wang, Jin Zhang, Qing He, Xiaoyu Zhang, Yaping Zhang
  • Patent number: 11564415
    Abstract: The invention relates to a slide-on attachment (500) for use with an electronic smoking device (10), the slide-on attachment (500) comprising a body (100) and a plurality of end-caps (300) fitted on the body (100), the body (100) comprising a plurality of cavities, the plurality of cavities (106, 108) comprising a central cavity (106) capable of facilitating fitting the slide-on attachment (500) on the electronic smoking device (10), and at least one lateral cavity (108) comprising a material imbibed with flavored fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Fontem Ventures B.V.
    Inventor: Neha Daryani
  • Patent number: 11510435
    Abstract: The bowl for a water pipe having multiple partitioned compartments (hereinafter invention) is configured for use with a smoking material consumed through a hookah. The invention contains the smoking material during combustion. The combustion of the smoking material releases the pharmacologically active media in a gas phase. The invention is a partitioned structure. The invention is configured to store a plurality of doses of the smoking material. Each dose is stored in a partition. Each partition displays a scale that measures the dose of the smoking material contained in the partition. The invention comprises a partitioned bowl and a transport structure. The partitioned bowl is the partitioned structure that contains one or more doses of the smoking material. The transport structure forms a fluidic connection between the partitioned bowl and the hookah that transports the gas phase of the pharmacologically active media from the partitioned bowl to the hookah.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Inventor: William Parker
  • Patent number: 11503854
    Abstract: Device for grinding and mixing of herbs and/or tobacco and/or spices, preparing and dispensing of cigarettes and method for the application thereof The subject of the invention is a device for grinding and mixing of herbs and/or tobacco and/or spices, preparing and dispensing of cigarettes, the device comprising a grinding chamber (2) for holding and grinding the herbs and/or tobacco and/or spices, wherein the grinding chamber (2) has a plurality of tubes (9) for holding pre-rolled cigarette papers (17) and receiving ground herbs and/or tobacco and/or spices, a carousel (10), which is rotatable around a central axis (16).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: JROLL TECH LTD.
    Inventors: Jaron Veelo, Rohi Hen