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).

  • Publication number: 20230138306
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Inventors: MICHAEL ZAWADZKI, KAI TANG, STEVEN LEE ALDERMAN, THOMAS H. POOLE
  • Publication number: 20230098503
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventors: NICOLAS H. VON COSMOS, STEVEN LEE ALDERMAN, MICHAEL ZAWADZKI
  • Publication number: 20220400744
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventors: Anthony Richard GERARDI, Ross Jay ODEN, Matthew LAMPE, Michael ZAWADZKI
  • Publication number: 20220325479
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2019
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Inventors: Bo Shi, Thomas G. Shannon, Brent M. Thompson, Michael A. Zawadzki
  • Publication number: 20220325476
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2019
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Inventors: Bo Shi, Thomas G. Shannon, Brent M. Thompson, Michael A. Zawadzki, Stephen M. Lindsay
  • Patent number: 7836898
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2010
    Assignee: Lorillard Licensing Company, LLC
    Inventors: Michael A. Zawadzki, Arthur M. Ihrig, David A. Grider, Terry D. Jessup, David L. Williams
  • Publication number: 20090056729
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2008
    Publication date: March 5, 2009
    Inventors: Michael A. ZAWADZKI, A. Brent Rudd, Kenneth D. Barrett, Terry D. Jessup, William R. Deaton
  • Publication number: 20090038629
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2007
    Publication date: February 12, 2009
    Inventors: J. Dennis Ergle, Michael A. Zawadzki, Simon F. Yee
  • Publication number: 20050056293
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2004
    Publication date: March 17, 2005
    Inventors: Michael Zawadzki, Arthur Ihring, David Grider, Terry Jessup, David Williams
  • Patent number: 6837248
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2005
    Assignee: Lorillard Licensing Company, LLC
    Inventors: Michael A. Zawadzki, Arthur M. Ihrig, David A. Grider, Terry D. Jessup, David L. Williams
  • Publication number: 20040231684
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2003
    Publication date: November 25, 2004
    Inventors: Michael A. Zawadzki, A. Brent Rudd, Kenneth D. Barrett, Terry D. Jessup, William R. Deaton
  • Publication number: 20040123874
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2003
    Publication date: July 1, 2004
    Inventors: Michael A. Zawadzki, Arthur M. Ihrig, David A. Grider
  • Publication number: 20030164173
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2003
    Publication date: September 4, 2003
    Inventors: Michael A. Zawadzki, Arthur M. Ihrig, David A. Grider, Terry D. Jessup, David L. Williams
  • Publication number: 20020179105
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2001
    Publication date: December 5, 2002
    Inventors: Michael A. Zawadzki, Arthur M. Ihrig, David A. Grider, Terry D. Jessup, David L. Williams
  • Publication number: 20020179106
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2001
    Publication date: December 5, 2002
    Inventors: Michael A. Zawadzki, Arthur M. Ihrig, David A. Grider