Patents by Inventor Danielle R. Crawford

Danielle R. Crawford has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 8053008
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a flavor pouch containing flavorant selected from one or more of tea, coffee, rose hips, honey, royal jelly, fruit extracts, mint, sweeteners, exotic flavors, and the like includes feeding a strip of fabric along a feed path, placing preselected amounts of flavorant material at spaced apart locations along the strip, forming flavor pouches by sealing portions of the strip together to enclose each preselected amount of flavorant material, and separating the flavor pouches from the strip. The pouches can have various shapes including crescent and oval shapes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignee: Philip Morris USA Inc.
    Inventors: William R. Sweeney, Danielle R. Crawford
  • Patent number: 8029837
    Abstract: Provided is a disintegrable or non-disintegrable oral flavor delivery product. The product includes a disintegrable or non-disintegrable chewable pouch with a plurality of perforations. The pouch encloses a non-tobacco flavor product that can be in a gel, semi-liquid, and/or liquid form. A user chews, sucks, and/or manipulates the pouch to cause the enclosed flavor product to leach out of the perforations into the user's mouth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2011
    Assignee: Philip Morris USA Inc.
    Inventors: Shalva Gedevanishvili, Dennis Geib, Bruce Waymack, William R. Sweeney, Cindy Hayes, Danielle R. Crawford
  • Publication number: 20090025740
    Abstract: An oral pouch product having a soft edge includes an inner filling material enclosed inwardly of at least one seam between opposed layers of porous pouch wrapper. The at least one seam is separated from the periphery of the porous pouch wrapper by an unbonded area of the opposed layers so as to form a soft edge of the pouch wrapper.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2008
    Publication date: January 29, 2009
    Applicant: Philip Morris USA Inc.
    Inventors: Fernando L. Chappell, SR., Danielle R. Crawford
  • Publication number: 20090025741
    Abstract: Provided is a tobacco-free oral flavor delivery pouch product that provides and engaging and flavorful experience to a user. The pouch product includes a porous pouch wrapper and an inner filling material. The inner filling material can include a non-tobacco, botanical component, at least one functional ingredient and a solid flavor component dispersed throughout the inner filling material. The pouch product delivers multiple textures to the user's mouth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2008
    Publication date: January 29, 2009
    Applicant: Philip Morris USA Inc.
    Inventors: Danielle R. Crawford, Karen Brooks, Kenneth A. Newman, William R. Sweeney, Fernando L. Chappell, SR.
  • Publication number: 20090022917
    Abstract: Provided is an oral pouch product having a coated seam, having a porous pouch wrapper; an inner filling material enclosed within first and second opposed layers of the porous pouch wrapper; at least one seam holding a portion of said first and second opposed layers of said porous pouch wrapper together; and a first coating comprising a releasable ingredient applied to an outer surface of said seam. Also provided is a method for making the oral pouch product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2008
    Publication date: January 22, 2009
    Applicant: Philip Morris USA Inc.
    Inventors: Shalva Gedevanishvili, Paolo Catasti, Danielle R. Crawford, William R. Sweeney, Munmaya K. Mishra, Shengsheng Liu
  • Publication number: 20090004329
    Abstract: Provided is a disintegrable or non-disintegrable oral flavor delivery product. The product includes a disintegrable or non-disintegrable chewable pouch with a plurality of perforations. The pouch encloses a non-tobacco flavor product that can be in a gel, semi-liquid, and/or liquid form. A user chews, sucks, and/or manipulates the pouch to cause the enclosed flavor product to leach out of the perforations into the user's mouth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2008
    Publication date: January 1, 2009
    Applicant: Philip Morris USA Inc.
    Inventors: Shalva Gedevanishvili, Dennis Geib, Bruce Waymack, William R. Sweeney, Cindy Hayes, Danielle R. Crawford
  • Publication number: 20080305216
    Abstract: Provided are oral products that provide engaging and flavorful experiences to a user. The oral product includes a plurality of capsules, a powdered component, a viscous component and a binder that create a matrix that is molded into a shape. In a preferred embodiment, the capsules provide functional and flavorful ingredients. In an embodiment, the matrix is enclosed in a porous material that forms a pouch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2008
    Publication date: December 11, 2008
    Applicant: Philip Morris USA Inc.
    Inventors: Danielle R. Crawford, Shalva Gedevanishvili, William R. Sweeney, Chris Irving
  • Patent number: D568576
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2008
    Assignee: Philip Morris USA Inc.
    Inventors: Bruce Neidle, Cynthia S. Hayes, Kenneth Newman, Robert T. Mitten, William R. Sweeney, Danielle R. Crawford
  • Patent number: D585626
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2009
    Assignee: Philip Morris USA Inc.
    Inventors: Fernando L. Chappell, Sr., Danielle R. Crawford