Patents by Inventor Munmaya K. Mishra
Munmaya K. Mishra 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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Patent number: 12349726Abstract: A method of manufacturing flavorant particles includes melting a food grade wax and a flavorant into a molten wax; solidifying the molten wax; and grinding the solidified molten wax into a plurality of flavorant particles. Another method of manufacturing flavorant particles includes melting a food grade wax and a flavorant into a molten wax, the molten wax having a melting temperature between about 50° C. to about 70° C.; and spray-chilling the molten wax into at least one solid flavorant particle, the solid flavorant particle having a diameter of between about 0.1 mm to about 2.0 mm.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2022Date of Patent: July 8, 2025Assignee: Altria Client Services LLCInventor: Munmaya K. Mishra
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Patent number: 12350306Abstract: Tobacco products comprising smokeless tobacco products and active ingredients, including those that antagonize nicotinic acetylcholine receptors, the TRPV1 channel, and/or the TRPA1 channel are disclosed. Nicotine replacement therapies comprising active ingredients, including those that antagonize nicotinic acetylcholine receptors, the TRPV1 channel, and/or the TRPA1 channel. The active ingredient may reduce or eliminate sensory irritation arising due to use of the product. Analgesic compositions comprising active ingredients. Methods of reducing taste and sensory irritation by employing an active ingredient.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2020Date of Patent: July 8, 2025Assignee: ALTRIA CLIENT SERVICES LLCInventors: Gerd Kobal, Georgios D. Karles, Munmaya K. Mishra
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Patent number: 12342851Abstract: An example smoking article includes a smoking rod filled with a filler material. The filler material includes tobacco material and non-tobacco leaf material, and the filler material is distributed along a length of the smoking rod. In certain examples the tobacco material, non-tobacco leaf material, or both may be treated with one or more additives, and in other examples the filler material may not include additives. The smoking article can be formed as a cigarette, cigarillo, or cigar.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2017Date of Patent: July 1, 2025Assignee: Altria Client Services LLCInventors: Munmaya K. Mishra, Shaoyong Yu, Weiling Li
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Patent number: 12317929Abstract: An apparatus includes a body of pre-vapor formulation configured to be contained within a reservoir, the pre-vapor formulation being a gel formulation. The apparatus includes a surface heater in contact with a surface of the body of gel formulation, the heater being configured to heat the body of gel formulation to form a vapor.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2020Date of Patent: June 3, 2025Assignee: Altria Client Services LLCInventors: Munmaya K. Mishra, Shaoyong Yu, Raymond Lau, Pauline Marcq, Geoffrey Brandon Jordan, Christopher S. Tucker
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Patent number: 12279639Abstract: Electrically heated cigarettes used in an electrical smoking system include a flavoring-release additive and sorbent effective to remove one or more gas-phase constituents of mainstream tobacco smoke. The flavoring-release additive includes gamma cyclodextrin and at least one flavoring. Flavoring is released in a cigarette upon the flavoring-release additive reaching at least a minimum temperature during smoking. The flavoring-release additive can have various forms including, for example, powder and films.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2023Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: Philip Morris USA Inc.Inventors: Munmaya K. Mishra, Susan E. Wrenn, Jay A. Fournier
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Publication number: 20250098731Abstract: An exemplary smoking article includes a smoking rod filled with a combination including tobacco filler material and cellulose filler material. The tobacco filler material and cellulose filler material can be arranged such that the constituent material particles are generally distributed throughout the smoking rod, the tobacco filler material at least partially surrounds the cellulose filler material along a length of the smoking rod, and/or the cellulose filler material particles have a higher concentration along a central axis of the smoking rod than the tobacco filler material particles.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2024Publication date: March 27, 2025Applicant: Altria Client Services LLCInventors: Munmaya K. MISHRA, Shaoyong YU, Bernard S. APPLETON, Weiling LI
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Publication number: 20250098749Abstract: The method including providing a filler material that is water insoluble, the providing provides the filler material with more than 98% alpha-cellulose, 0.01% to less than 2% ash and a remainder hemicellulose, infusing at least one first consumable within the filler material and inserting a matrix within at least one first containing structure to form an insert, the matrix including the filler material.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2024Publication date: March 27, 2025Applicant: Altria Client Services LLCInventors: Munmaya K. MISHRA, Danielle CRAWFORD, Dwight David WILLIAMS, Eric HAWES, Terrance Theodore BACHE, Raymond W. LAU, Shaoyong YU
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Publication number: 20250089755Abstract: An oral tobacco product includes a body that is wholly receivable in an oral cavity. The body includes a mouth-stable polymer matrix and tobacco fibers embedded in the mouth-stable polymer matrix. The oral tobacco product can be formed by extruding a mixture of mouth-stable polymer and tobacco fibers.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2024Publication date: March 20, 2025Applicant: Altria Client Services LLCInventors: Feng GAO, Frank Scott ATCHLEY, Gregory James GRISCIK, Christopher Joseph DINOVI, Phillip M. HULAN, Diane L. GEE, Munmaya K. MISHRA, James Arthur STRICKLAND
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Publication number: 20250089758Abstract: A liquid aerosol formulation for an electronic smoking article includes an aerosol former, water, nicotine, and an acid including tartaric acid. The acid is included in an amount sufficient to provide the liquid aerosol formulation with a pH ranging from about 4 to about 8.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2024Publication date: March 20, 2025Applicant: Altria Client Services LLCInventors: Peter LIPOWICZ, Pauline MARCQ, Gerd KOBAL, Munmaya K. MISHRA, Georgios D. KARLES, San LI
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Publication number: 20250082004Abstract: An orally-enjoyable tobacco product includes a portion of smokeless tobacco comprising an active ingredient and either: (1) a collection of tobacco particles at least partially enclosed by a coating comprising a water-soluble non-crosslinked component and a substantially water-insoluble cross-linked component, or (2) a pouch comprising smokeless tobacco enclosed in a water-permeable wrapper. The active ingredient is selected from the group consisting of a mercaptan, camphor, borneol, isoborneol, bornyl acetate, isobornyl acetate, mono-bornyl succinate, mono-isobornyl succinate, mono-bornyl formate, and mono-isobornyl formate. The active ingredient is present in an amount effective to reduce or eliminate the sensory irritation arising from the smokeless tobacco.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2024Publication date: March 13, 2025Applicant: Philip Morris USA Inc.Inventors: Gerd KOBAL, Justin HEYNEKAMP, Timothy B. LANGSTON, Peter REEH, Munmaya K. MISHRA, Jason W. FLORA
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Publication number: 20250072489Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2024Publication date: March 6, 2025Applicant: Altria Client Services LLCInventors: Frank Scott ATCHLEY, James M. ROSSMAN, Munmaya K. MISHRA
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Patent number: 12213518Abstract: The method including providing a filler material that is water insoluble, the providing provides the filler material with more than 98% alpha-cellulose, 0.01% to less than 2% ash and a remainder hemicellulose, infusing at least one first consumable within the filler material and inserting a matrix within at least one first containing structure to form an insert, the matrix including the filler material.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2022Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: Altria Client Services LLCInventors: Munmaya K. Mishra, Danielle Crawford, Dwight David Williams, Eric Hawes, Terry Bache, Raymond W. Lau, Shaoyong Yu
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Publication number: 20250031758Abstract: An e-vaping device having a cartridge including an outer container extending in a longitudinal direction, a conduit within the outer container, a storage portion including pre-vapor formulation ingredients, the storage portion being between the outer container and the conduit and including a plurality of chambers, a plurality of wicks, each of the wicks being in communication with each of the chambers and the conduit and being configured to deliver one or more ingredients in each of the chambers to the conduit, and a coil heater located in the chimney and operatively coupled to each of the wicks. The e-vaping device also includes a power supply source coupled to the cartridge, the power supply source is configured to heat the wicks to vaporize ingredients located in respective chambers and generate a vapor corresponding to each of the vaporized ingredients.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2024Publication date: January 30, 2025Applicant: Altria Client Services LLCInventors: Shaoyong YU, Munmaya K. MISHRA
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Publication number: 20250031713Abstract: A process for preparing an orally-enjoyable film of encapsulated plant material includes combining particles of finely divided plant material, a first coating material, and a second coating material, then inducing gelation to form a gel matrix of the particles coated with the first coating material embedded in the second coating material, followed by forming a film from the gel matrix. Also disclosed is a film of coated particles of finely-divided plant material, made of a gel matrix of plant material at least partially surrounded by a first coating material and embedded in a second coating material.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2024Publication date: January 30, 2025Applicant: Philip Morris USA Inc.Inventors: Tapashi SENGUPTA, Munmaya K. MISHRA, William R. SWEENEY
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Patent number: 12193472Abstract: A liquid aerosol formulation for an electronic smoking article includes an aerosol former, water, nicotine, and an acid including tartaric acid. The acid is included in an amount sufficient to provide the liquid aerosol formulation with a pH ranging from about 4 to about 8.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2022Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: Altria Client Services LLCInventors: Peter Lipowicz, Pauline Marcq, Gerd Kobal, Munmaya K. Mishra, Georgios D. Karles, San Li
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Patent number: 12193476Abstract: An exemplary smoking article includes a smoking rod filled with a combination including tobacco filler material and cellulose filler material. The tobacco filler material and cellulose filler material can be arranged such that the constituent material particles are generally distributed throughout the smoking rod, the tobacco filler material at least partially surrounds the cellulose filler material along a length of the smoking rod, and/or the cellulose filler material particles have a higher concentration along a central axis of the smoking rod than the tobacco filler material particles.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2022Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: Altria Client Services LLCInventors: Munmaya K. Mishra, Shaoyong Yu, Bernard S. Appleton, Weiling Li
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Patent number: 12193470Abstract: An oral tobacco product includes a body that is wholly receivable in an oral cavity. The body includes a mouth-stable polymer matrix and tobacco fibers embedded in the mouth-stable polymer matrix. The oral tobacco product can be formed by extruding a mixture of mouth-stable polymer and tobacco fibers.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2022Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: Altria Client Services LLCInventors: Feng Gao, Frank Scott Atchley, Gregory James Griscik, Christopher Joseph Dinovi, Phillip M. Hulan, Diane L. Gee, Munmaya K. Mishra, James Arthur Strickland
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Patent number: 12178256Abstract: A base for an e-vaping device is configured to couple with multiple cartridges configured to generate separate, respective dispersions. The cartridges may include one or more atomizer assemblies or vaporizer assemblies. The base may include multiple connectors electrically coupled to the power supply. The connectors may be configured to couple multiple dispersion generators to a power supply of the base. The base may include control circuitry configured to independently control dispersion generation by dispersion generators coupled to the base. The control circuitry may independently control dispersion generation by the first and second cartridges based on cartridge information accessed through at least one of the first and second connectors. The control circuitry may control dispersion generation by controlling power supplied to the dispersion generators.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2019Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: Altria Client Services LLCInventors: Ali A. Rostami, Gerd Kobal, Yezdi Pithawalla, David Kane, Christopher S. Tucker, Peter Lipowicz, Jason Flora, Georgios Karles, Munmaya K. Mishra, Catherine Barnes, Richard Arena
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Publication number: 20240415171Abstract: A smoking article has a burn portion and a mouth portion. The burn portion includes a smoking rod filled with a smokeable filler material formed almost exclusively of cellulose material. The mouth portion includes either a filter portion with or without an interface or a tip with an interface. The mouth end may include an orthonasal property and the interface may store an additive.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2024Publication date: December 19, 2024Applicant: Altria Client Services LLCInventors: Munmaya K. MISHRA, Shaoyong YU
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Patent number: 12161145Abstract: An orally-enjoyable tobacco product includes a portion of smokeless tobacco comprising an active ingredient and either: (1) a collection of tobacco particles at least partially enclosed by a coating comprising a water-soluble non-crosslinked component and a substantially water-insoluble cross-linked component, or (2) a pouch comprising smokeless tobacco enclosed in a water-permeable wrapper. The active ingredient is selected from the group consisting of a mercaptan, camphor, borneol, isoborneol, bornyl acetate, isobornyl acetate, mono-bornyl succinate, mono-isobornyl succinate, mono-bornyl formate, and mono-isobornyl formate. The active ingredient is present in an amount effective to reduce or eliminate the sensory irritation arising from the smokeless tobacco.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2021Date of Patent: December 10, 2024Assignee: Philip Morris USA Inc.Inventors: Gerd Kobal, Justin Heynekamp, Timothy B. Langston, Peter Reeh, Munmaya K. Mishra, Jason W. Flora