Patents by Inventor Michael A. Zawadzki
Michael A. Zawadzki 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).
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Publication number: 20230138306Abstract: The disclosure provides a composition configured for oral use, the composition including at least one filler, water, a basic amine, and an organic acid, an alkali metal salt of an organic acid, or a combination thereof, wherein the organic acid has a logP value of from about 1 to about 12. At least a portion of the basic amine is associated with at least a portion of the organic acid or the alkali metal salt thereof. The association is in the form of a basic amine-organic acid salt, an ion pair between the basic amine and a conjugate base of the organic acid, or a combination of both. The organic acid is a monoester of a dicarboxylic acid or is a carotenoid derivative having one or more carboxylic acids.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2022Publication date: May 4, 2023Inventors: MICHAEL ZAWADZKI, KAI TANG, STEVEN LEE ALDERMAN, THOMAS H. POOLE
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Publication number: 20230098503Abstract: The disclosure provides a composition configured for oral use. The composition includes a gum base, one or more bulking agents; an active ingredient having a basic amine functionality; and an organic acid, an alkali metal salt of an organic acid, or a combination thereof, wherein at least a portion the active ingredient having the basic amine functionality is associated with at least a portion of the organic acid or the alkali metal salt thereof, the association in the form of a basic amine-organic acid salt, an ion pair between the basic amine and a conjugate base of the organic acid, or both.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2022Publication date: March 30, 2023Inventors: NICOLAS H. VON COSMOS, STEVEN LEE ALDERMAN, MICHAEL ZAWADZKI
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Publication number: 20220400744Abstract: A pouched product including an outer water-permeable pouch defining a cavity and a composition configured for oral use situated within the cavity is provided. The composition is at least partially orally dissolvable, and includes one or more dissolvable fillers in an amount of at least about 45% by weight, based on the total weight of the composition; a humectant in an amount up to about 25% by weight, based on the total weight of the composition; and at least one active ingredient, at least one flavorant, or both at least one active ingredient and at least one flavorant.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2022Publication date: December 22, 2022Inventors: Anthony Richard GERARDI, Ross Jay ODEN, Matthew LAMPE, Michael ZAWADZKI
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Publication number: 20220325479Abstract: The present invention provides a wet-pressed, wet-laid tissue product that is soft and durable. The tissue product includes regenerated cellulose fibers providing 25% or less of the total weight of the wet-laid tissue product. The tissue product can include a DSF value of greater than 1.22. The DSF value is defined by the equation: DSF=(Durability Value/TS7 Softness value)/number of plies of the wet-pressed, wet-laid tissue product.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2019Publication date: October 13, 2022Inventors: Bo Shi, Thomas G. Shannon, Brent M. Thompson, Michael A. Zawadzki
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Publication number: 20220325476Abstract: The present invention provides a wet-laid tissue product comprising regenerated cellulose fibers that can provide 25% or less of the total weight of the wet-laid tissue product. The regenerated cellulose fibers can have a denier of less than 0.9 and a fiber length of less than 6.0 mm. The wet-laid tissue product can provide improvements in softness at a given strength.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2019Publication date: October 13, 2022Inventors: Bo Shi, Thomas G. Shannon, Brent M. Thompson, Michael A. Zawadzki, Stephen M. Lindsay
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Patent number: 7836898Abstract: A smoking article having reduced ignition propensity is disclosed. The smoking article includes a tobacco column, a wrapper surrounding the tobacco column and a filter element. The wrapper has a base permeability, an untreated area and a least one discrete area treated with a composition to reducing the base permeability. The discretely treated area interacts with a coal of a burning tobacco firecone as it advances to self-extinguish the smoking article. The composition of the treated area includes a permeability reducing substance, a burn rate retarding substance and a burn rate accelerating substance. Either the burn rate retarding substance or the burn rate accelerating substance acts as an organoleptic enhancing substance. In this way a smoker's experience when smoking either the at least one treated area or the untreated area is substantially the same.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2004Date of Patent: November 23, 2010Assignee: Lorillard Licensing Company, LLCInventors: Michael A. Zawadzki, Arthur M. Ihrig, David A. Grider, Terry D. Jessup, David L. Williams
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Publication number: 20090056729Abstract: Improved filters useful for tobacco products, such as cigarettes, and novel cigarettes having such filters are disclosed. The filters include adsorbents such as activated carbon which reduce amounts of one or more gas phase constituents of mainstream tobacco smoke. The adsorbents are treated with off-taste suppressants which reduce the off-taste associated with adsorbent containing filters and substantially restore the taste normally associated with tobacco smoke.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 3, 2008Publication date: March 5, 2009Inventors: Michael A. ZAWADZKI, A. Brent Rudd, Kenneth D. Barrett, Terry D. Jessup, William R. Deaton
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Publication number: 20090038629Abstract: Flavor-bearing sheets for the controlled delivery of volatile flavorants in a smoking article are disclosed. The flavor-bearing sheets comprise a non-volatile vitreous matrix of a film-forming coagulating material having one or more volatile flavorants dispersed therein.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2007Publication date: February 12, 2009Inventors: J. Dennis Ergle, Michael A. Zawadzki, Simon F. Yee
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Publication number: 20050056293Abstract: A smoking article having reduced ignition propensity is disclosed. The smoking article includes a tobacco column, a wrapper surrounding the tobacco column and a filter element. The wrapper has a base permeability, an untreated area and a least one discrete area treated with a composition to reducing the base permeability. The discretely treated area interacts with a coal of a burning tobacco firecone as it advances to self-extinguish the smoking article. The composition of the treated area includes a permeability reducing substance, a burn rate retarding substance and a burn rate accelerating substance. Either the burn rate retarding substance or the burn rate accelerating substance acts as an organoleptic enhancing substance. In this way a smoker's experience when smoking either the at least one treated area or the untreated area is substantially the same.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2004Publication date: March 17, 2005Inventors: Michael Zawadzki, Arthur Ihring, David Grider, Terry Jessup, David Williams
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Patent number: 6837248Abstract: A smoking article having reduced ignition propensity is disclosed. The smoking article includes a tobacco column, a wrapper surrounding the tobacco column and a filter element. The wrapper has a base permeability, an untreated area and a least one discrete area treated with a composition to reducing the base permeability. The discretely treated area interacts with a coal of a burning tobacco firecone as it advances to self-extinguish the smoking article. The composition of the treated area includes a permeability reducing substance, a burn rate retarding substance and a burn rate accelerating substance. Either the burn rate retarding substance or the burn rate accelerating substance acts as an organoleptic enhancing substance. In this way a smoker's experience when smoking either the at least one treated area or the untreated area is substantially the same.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2003Date of Patent: January 4, 2005Assignee: Lorillard Licensing Company, LLCInventors: Michael A. Zawadzki, Arthur M. Ihrig, David A. Grider, Terry D. Jessup, David L. Williams
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Publication number: 20040231684Abstract: Improved filters useful for tobacco products, such as cigarettes, and novel cigarettes having such filters are disclosed. The filters include adsorbents such as activated carbon which reduce amounts of one or more gas phase constituents of mainstream tobacco smoke. The adsorbents are treated with off-taste suppressants which reduce the off-taste associated with adsorbent containing filters and substantially restore the taste normally associated with tobacco smoke.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2003Publication date: November 25, 2004Inventors: Michael A. Zawadzki, A. Brent Rudd, Kenneth D. Barrett, Terry D. Jessup, William R. Deaton
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Publication number: 20040123874Abstract: A smoking article having reduced ignition propensity is disclosed. The smoking article includes a tobacco column, a wrapper surrounding the tobacco column and a filter element. The wrapper has a base permeability, an untreated area and a least one discrete area treated with a composition to reduce the base permeability. The treated area is treated with a composition initially comprising a permeability reducing substance initially dissolved in a non-derivatizing solvent mixture initially comprising a solvent component and at least one ingredient that as part of the solvent mixture is a self-association disrupter for the permeability reducing substance. The discretely treated area interacts with a coal of a burning tobacco firecone as it advances to self-extinguish the smoking article. The composition of the treated area includes a permeability reducing substance.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2003Publication date: July 1, 2004Inventors: Michael A. Zawadzki, Arthur M. Ihrig, David A. Grider
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Publication number: 20030164173Abstract: A smoking article having reduced ignition propensity is disclosed. The smoking article includes a tobacco column, a wrapper surrounding the tobacco column and a filter element. The wrapper has a base permeability, an untreated area and a least one discrete area treated with a composition to reducing the base permeability. The discretely treated area interacts with a coal of a burning tobacco firecone as it advances to self-extinguish the smoking article. The composition of the treated area includes a permeability reducing substance, a burn rate retarding substance and a burn rate accelerating substance. Either the burn rate retarding substance or the burn rate accelerating substance acts as an organoleptic enhancing substance. In this way a smoker's experience when smoking either the at least one treated area or the untreated area is substantially the same.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2003Publication date: September 4, 2003Inventors: Michael A. Zawadzki, Arthur M. Ihrig, David A. Grider, Terry D. Jessup, David L. Williams
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Publication number: 20020179105Abstract: A smoking article having reduced ignition propensity is disclosed. The smoking article includes a tobacco column, a wrapper surrounding the tobacco column and a filter element. The wrapper has a base permeability, an untreated area and a least one discrete area treated with a composition to reducing the base permeability. The discretely treated area interacts with a coal of a burning tobacco firecone as it advances to self-extinguish the smoking article. The composition of the treated area includes a permeability reducing substance, a burn rate retarding substance and a burn rate accelerating substance. Either the burn rate retarding substance or the burn rate accelerating substance acts as an organoleptic enhancing substance. In this way a smoker's experience when smoking either the at least one treated area or the untreated area is substantially the same.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2001Publication date: December 5, 2002Inventors: Michael A. Zawadzki, Arthur M. Ihrig, David A. Grider, Terry D. Jessup, David L. Williams
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Publication number: 20020179106Abstract: A smoking article having reduced ignition propensity is disclosed. The smoking article includes a tobacco column, a wrapper surrounding the tobacco column and a filter element. The wrapper has a base permeability, an untreated area and a least one discrete area treated with a composition to reduce the base permeability. The treated area is treated with a composition initially comprising a permeability reducing substance initially dissolved in a non-derivatizing solvent mixture initially comprising a solvent component and at least one ingredient that as part of the solvent mixture is a self-association disruptor for the permeability reducing substance. The discretely treated area interacts with a coal of a burning tobacco firecone as it advances to self-extinguish the smoking article. The composition of the treated area includes a permeability reducing substance.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2001Publication date: December 5, 2002Inventors: Michael A. Zawadzki, Arthur M. Ihrig, David A. Grider