Antismoking Product Or Device, I.e., Deterent Patents (Class 131/270)
  • Patent number: 12115249
    Abstract: There is provided an aerosolizable gel comprising (a) an active agent; (b) one or more gel forming materials, wherein the one or more gel forming materials is at least agarose, wherein the agarose is present in an amount of 1 to 12 wt. % based on the aerosolizable gel; (c) an aerosol forming material; and (d) water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: NICOVENTURES TRADING LIMITED
    Inventors: John Yao, Joseph McLellan, Xinhua Li, Hootan Farhat, Michael Bates
  • Patent number: 12048326
    Abstract: An electronic cigarette includes a main body portion and a mouthpiece portion, the mouthpiece portion being moveably connected to the main body portion by a connection mechanism. The main body portion includes a first cartridge seating configured to receive a first cartridge and the mouthpiece portion includes a second cartridge seating configured to receive a second cartridge. The connection mechanism is configured to enable the mouthpiece portion to move relative to the main body portion between: a closed position in which the first cartridge seating is enclosed in the electronic cigarette; and an open position in which the first cartridge seating is exposed such that a first cartridge can be received, while the main body and the mouthpiece portion remain connected to each other by the connection mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: JT International S.A.
    Inventors: Kun Du, YanZhou Huang, GuangPing Cao, ShengJie Hu, YunShan Ma
  • Patent number: 11978540
    Abstract: A system and device for collecting and delivering smoker statistics to an external storage device that accurately describe a smoker's smoking habits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Fontem Ventures B.V.
    Inventors: Ramon Alarcon, Dennis Christopher Howard
  • Patent number: 11839231
    Abstract: Two genes, A622 and NBB1, can be influenced to achieve a decrease of nicotinic alkaloid levels in plants. In particular, suppression of one or both of A622 and NBB1 may be used to decrease nicotine in tobacco plants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: 22nd Century Limited, LLC
    Inventors: Takashi Hashimoto, Akira Kato
  • Patent number: 11738016
    Abstract: The invention relates to an orally disintegrating nicotine tablet for nicotine craving relief comprising a pressed powder formulation, the tablet being designed to disintegrate within a period of less than 60 seconds upon oral administration, the powder formulation comprising an amount of nicotine and a pH regulating agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Fertin Pharma A/S
    Inventors: Bruno Provstgaard Nielsen, Kent Albin Nielsen
  • Patent number: 11707092
    Abstract: An aerosol generating apparatus, especially a personal vaporizer device such as an electronic smoking article, generates an aerosol from a source of aerosol-forming substance. The aerosol generating apparatus includes a receiving portion configured to receive a consumable unit, such as a charge or cartridge including a source of aerosol-forming substance, and at least one locating member for locating the consumable unit within the receiving portion. The at least one locating member is configured to locate or position the consumable unit within the receiving portion such that an airflow path extends along outer sides of the consumable unit and through the consumable unit entering at one end region thereof and exiting from an opposite end region thereof, with the outer sides of the consumable unit being arranged between the one end region and the opposite end region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Inventors: Michael Plattner, Thomas Johaentges, Takashi Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 11694538
    Abstract: A reminder device includes a frame-shaped base defining an opening and configured to be mounted over and around an operational button/handle located in a vehicle or in a home; a lid coupled to the frame-shaped base and configured to close over said frame-shaped base, covering said opening and blocking access to said operational button/handle; a circuit configured to product an audible message upon receiving a trigger signal, said circuit being located in at least one of said framed-shaped base and said lid; and a switch including a first component located on said frame-shaped base and a second component located on said lid and so configured that when said first component and second component are separated from each other by a predetermined distance, when the lid is opened, the switch causes the creation of said trigger signal and the production of said audible alarm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Inventor: Yeoshua Sorias
  • Patent number: 11653878
    Abstract: Devices, methods and systems are disclosed for assisting patients in behavioral modification and cessation programs aimed at terminating undesired behaviors such as smoking, alcohol use and others. Patient devices configured to be easily carried or worn including test units such as carbon monoxide blood level sensors with automated patient prompting for self-testing, analysis of test results and data logging are included in a networked system with a specifically designed treatment modality. Devices and methods disclosed are particularly suited to use in smoking cessation treatment and programs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Pivot Health Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: David S. Utley, Jack D. Utley, Kathryn M. Utley, Alek D. Utley, Haley G. Utley, MacKenzie T. Utley, Emma K. Utley
  • Patent number: 11517566
    Abstract: An oral product includes a body that is wholly receivable in an oral cavity. The body includes a mouth-stable polymer matrix, cellulosic fibers embedded in the mouth-stable polymer matrix, and a mouth-soluble binder dispersed in the mouth-stable polymer matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Altria Client Services LLC
    Inventors: Feng Gao, Frank Scott Atchley, Gregory James Griscik, Christopher Joseph Dinovi, Phillip M. Hulan, Diane L. Gee, Jason Flora, Shuzhong Zhuang
  • Patent number: 11252991
    Abstract: There is provided an aerosol-generating system including a cartridge including: a first compartment containing a nicotine source, the first compartment having a first air inlet and a first air outlet; and a second compartment containing an acid source, the second compartment having a second air inlet and a second air outlet; and a mouthpiece configured to engage with the cartridge to define a chamber in fluid communication with the first air outlet and the second air outlet, the mouthpiece comprising a third air inlet in fluid communication with the chamber and a third air outlet in fluid communication with the chamber, the third air inlet defining a flow area, and the mouthpiece being configured so that the flow area through the third air inlet is variable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Philip Morris Products S.A.
    Inventor: Patrick Charles Silvestrini
  • Patent number: 11197498
    Abstract: There is provided a cartridge for an aerosol-generating system, the cartridge including: a first compartment having a first air inlet and a first air outlet, the first compartment containing a nicotine source including a first carrier material impregnated with between about 1 milligram and about 40 milligrams of nicotine; and a second compartment having a second air inlet and a second air outlet, the second compartment containing a lactic acid source including a second carrier material impregnated with between about 2 milligrams and about 60 milligrams of lactic acid. An aerosol-generating system is also provided, including the cartridge and an aerosol-generating device including a housing defining a cavity configured to receive at least a portion of the cartridge; and a heater configured to heat the first compartment and the second compartment of the cartridge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: Philip Morris Products S.A.
    Inventors: Judith Waller, Marie Farine, Patrick Charles Silvestrini
  • Patent number: 11083669
    Abstract: An acupressure sleeve for applying acupressure to predetermined acupoints on an arm of a user includes a sleeve body and an acupressure unit. The sleeve body is configured to elastically and tightly press against the arm of the user when the acupressure sleeve is worn by the user. The sleeve body has a fiber substrate, and a plurality of far-infrared particles and a plurality of negative ion particles blended in the fiber substrate. The acupressure unit includes a plurality of acupressure protrusions protruding from the fiber substrate into an interior of the sleeve body and configured to apply acupressure to the arm of the user at positions respectively corresponding to the predetermined acupoints.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: HOMEWAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Chin-Hsing Hsieh
  • Patent number: 11076634
    Abstract: A metered smoking apparatus includes a burnable media including indicia that visually represent a plurality of smokable units of a smokable substance or an active ingredient thereof, each of the smokable units corresponding to a same predetermined quantity of the smokable substance or the active ingredient thereof, and when the smokable substance is rolled within the burnable media, the burnable media is configured such that the indicia are sequentially burned in a burn line direction that is a direction in which a burn line burns when the metered smoking apparatus is smoked, to thereby indicate consumption of the predetermined quantity on a unit-by-unit basis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: ELEMENT EXTREME LLC
    Inventor: Daniel Freeman
  • Patent number: 11075995
    Abstract: A system comprising a vaporizing device and a central server is described. The vaporizing device includes a housing and a cartridge, received within the housing, the cartridge including a predefined quantity of concentrate and an identification code associated with the concentrate and uniquely identifying the cartridge. The vaporizing device further includes a control unit configured to read the identification code. The vaporizing device further includes a communication unit configured to transmit the identification code to a computing device of a user. The central server includes a database. The central server is configured to receive the identification code from the computing device and retrieve concentrate information corresponding to the identification code from the database. The central server is configured to transmit the concentrate information to the computing device for displaying to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: GoFire, Inc.
    Inventors: John Jesse Woodbine, Peter William Calfee, Christopher Bennett Carter, Gary Ross Mitchell, William F. Demyanovich
  • Patent number: 11065397
    Abstract: An inhalation device including a housing, which encloses a liquid reservoir in which the liquid is stored before discharge, and an applicator head with a nebulization chamber and an applicator piece connected thereto, wherein the applicator piece is designed either as a mouthpiece, to be received in the mouth of a patient, or as an inhalation mask, to sealingly cover the mouth, the nose, or the mouth and the nose. The inhalation device furthermore has a discharge channel which connects the liquid reservoir to the applicator head. The inhalation device includes at the end of the discharge channel a nozzle plate with a large number of nozzle openings which serve to generate an inhalation mist and through which the liquid from the liquid reservoir is conveyed into the nebulization chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Aptar Radolfzell GMBH
    Inventor: Günter Nadler
  • Patent number: 11051558
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an unburned tobacco controller in true response to smoker's puff process. The unburned tobacco controller comprises a MEMS thermal flow sensor and a microcontroller. With the thermal flow sensor, the controller can duplicate a whole smoker's puff process including puff start, puff stop, single puff duration, single puff volume, single puff interval, total puff volume, total puff duration, total puff interval and total puff number. The microcontroller with several embedded programs so that a tobacco roll can be heated to release nicotine-contained smokes meeting the habits and needs of the smoker and making the smoker feel, sense and experience like a conventional tobacco product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Inventor: Xiangzheng Tu
  • Patent number: 11051962
    Abstract: A plurality of scents that produce a particular effect on an individual's appetite are identified. The plurality of scents are delivered to produce the particular effect on the individual's appetite. The particular effect may include one of suppression of the individual's appetite and enhancement of the individual's appetite. Identifying a plurality of scents that produce a particular effect on an individual's appetite may include delivering a second plurality of scents to the individual, detecting a response of the individual to each respective one of the second plurality of scents, and identifying the plurality of scents that produce the particular effect on the individual's appetite based on the responses detected. A schedule for delivery of scents may be generated based on data relating to the individual's responses, and the plurality of scents may be delivered in accordance with the schedule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: JB SCIENTIFIC, LLC
    Inventor: Joseph Manne
  • Patent number: 11031801
    Abstract: A power supply unit for an aerosol inhaler includes: a power supply able to discharge a power to a load for generating an aerosol from an aerosol source; a connector able to be electrically connected to an external power supply; and a control device. The power supply unit further includes: a conductor which electrically connects the connector and the control device; a capacitor provided between the connector and the control device so as to be connected in parallel with the control device; a first circuit board on which the connector is provided; a second circuit board which is apart from the first circuit board and on which the capacitor and the control device are provided; and a conductive member which electrically connects the first circuit board and the second circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Japan Tobacco Inc.
    Inventor: Takeshi Akao
  • Patent number: 10932492
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to nicotine powder inhalers where the nicotine powder is delivered at air flow rates that mimic a smoking regime.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: PHILIP MORRIS PRODUCTS S.A.
    Inventors: Ihar Nikolaevich Zinovik, Gerard Zuber
  • Patent number: 10881983
    Abstract: A method for the extraction of natural ethyl maltol from passionflower plants is described. The plant material is extracted with a methanol based solvent and the natural ethyl maltol is recovered by column purification using a size exclusion purification column.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: The Winning Combination
    Inventor: Shazad Bukhari
  • Patent number: 10828435
    Abstract: A type flavor inhaler (100) comprises aerosol flow passage (140) guiding aerosol generated by the atomization unit (111) to the mouthpiece side. The aerosol flow passage (140) includes: a first flow passage (140A) which guides aerosol to the mouthpiece side through the flavor source (132); and a second flow passage (140B) which is different from the first flow passage (140A). An aerosol reduction rate of the second flow passage (140B) is smaller than an aerosol reduction rate of the first flow passage (140A).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: JAPAN TOBACCO INC.
    Inventors: Manabu Yamada, Akihiko Suzuki
  • Patent number: 10806176
    Abstract: A system and method for the controlled dispensation of cigarettes including a container with a logic control unit and an unlocking button by means of which an unlocking request is sent to the logic control unit so that the logic control unit switches a clamping device to an unlocked mode if the unlocking request occurs during one dispensation time interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: ICANDO S.R.L.
    Inventor: Alberto Bonetti Baroggi
  • Patent number: 10786007
    Abstract: An aerosol-forming article is provided, including an airflow inlet and an airflow outlet; a medicament source and a volatile delivery enhancing compound source disposed between the airflow inlet and the airflow outlet, and a moveable portion moveable between an open position in which the medicament source and the volatile delivery enhancing compound source are in fluid communication with both the airflow inlet and the airflow outlet, and a closed position in which each of the medicament source and the volatile delivery enhancing compound source is in communication with only one or none of the airflow inlet and the airflow outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: Philip Morris Products S.A.
    Inventors: Jonathan Hogwood, Stuart Michael Ruan Jones, John Antony Stephenson, David Edington, Christopher Coulson
  • Patent number: 10709164
    Abstract: Embodiments provided herein concern tobacco and tobacco products having a reduced amount of a harmful compound. More specifically, several embodiments concern approaches to modify the expression of a gene that is involved in the production of a harmful compound in tobacco, tobacco products made using these approaches and methods of determining whether the removal of said compounds using said approaches yields a tobacco and/or a tobacco product that has a reduced potential to contribute to a tobacco-related disease.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Vector Tobacco Inc.
    Inventors: Anthony P. Albino, Wendy Jin, Ellen Jorgensen
  • Patent number: 10682247
    Abstract: A plurality of scents that produce a particular effect on an individual's appetite are identified. The plurality of scents are delivered to produce the particular effect on the individual's appetite. The particular effect may include one of suppression of the individual's appetite and enhancement of the individual's appetite. Identifying a plurality of scents that produce a particular effect on an individual's appetite may include delivering a second plurality of scents to the individual, detecting a response of the individual to each respective one of the second plurality of scents, and identifying the plurality of scents that produce the particular effect on the individual's appetite based on the responses detected. A schedule for delivery of scents may be generated based on data relating to the individual's responses, and the plurality of scents may be delivered in accordance with the schedule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: JB SCIENTIFIC, LLC
    Inventor: Joseph Manne
  • Patent number: 10602776
    Abstract: There is provided an aerosol-forming cartridge for an electrically operated aerosol-generating system. The aerosol-forming cartridge includes a base layer including at least one cavity and at least one aerosol-forming substrate held in the at least one cavity. A protective foil is removably attached to the base layer and is arranged to substantially hermetically seal the at least one aerosol-forming substrate within the at least one cavity prior to use of the aerosol-forming cartridge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: PHILIP MORRIS PRODUCTS S.A.
    Inventor: Rui Nuno Batista
  • Patent number: 10524512
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an electronic smoking article that provides for improved aerosol delivery. Particularly, the article provides for separate delivery of two or more components of an aerosol precursor composition to one or more heaters so as to control the rate of delivery or the rate of heating of the separate components of the aerosol precursor composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: RAI Strategic Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Andries Don Sebastian, Karen V. Taluskie, Stephen Benson Sears, Bradley James Ingebrethsen, Balager Ademe, Steven Lee Alderman, William Robert Collett, Grady Lance Dooly, Charles Jacob Novak, III
  • Patent number: 10463079
    Abstract: A user-replaceable e-liquid reservoir for dispensing e-liquid, the reservoir being inserted into, or otherwise attached to, a portable, personal e-cigarette device and engaging with an electrical or electronic pump fluid transfer system in the device, the device including: an electrical or electronic pump, being configured to transfer e-liquid from the e-liquid reservoir to an atomizing unit in the device, the pump delivering a pre-defined or variable quantity of e-liquid from the reservoir; and in which the reservoir is not user-refillable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: AYR LTD.
    Inventors: Kaveh Memari, Adrian Bennett, Ian Murison, Stephen Marsh
  • Patent number: 10439419
    Abstract: A method of charging a second battery in an electronic smoking device from a first battery in a charging device is provided, including: comparing an output voltage of the first battery with a threshold voltage; and when the output voltage is equal to or greater than the threshold voltage, charging the second battery using a first current; and when the output voltage is less than the threshold voltage, reducing the first current until the output voltage is equal to or greater than a second threshold voltage. A charging device is also provided, including control circuitry configured to control charging of the secondary battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: Philip Morris Products S.A.
    Inventors: Dominique Bernauer, Yannick Butin
  • Patent number: 10405571
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides the identification of tobacco Nic1 locus. Also provided are tobacco plants with altered total alkaloid and nicotine levels and commercially acceptable leaf grade, their development via breeding or transgenic approaches, and production of tobacco products from these tobacco plants. Also provided are compositions and methods for producing tobacco plants having novel Nic1 mutations or alleles to reduce nicotine levels. Further provided are sequence polymorphisms and molecular markers for breeding tobacco with reduced nicotine or nicotine free while maintaining tobacco leaf grade and tobacco product quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: Altria Client Services LLC
    Inventors: Andrew Carl Adams, Marcos Fernando de Godoy Lusso, Sreepriya Pramod, Dongmei Xu
  • Patent number: 10375998
    Abstract: A user-replaceable e-liquid reservoir for dispensing e-liquid, the reservoir being inserted into, or otherwise attached to, a portable, personal e-cigarette device and engaging with an electrical or electronic pump fluid transfer system in the device, the device including: an electrical or electronic pump, being configured to transfer e-liquid from the e-liquid reservoir to an atomizing unit in the device, the pump delivering a pre-defined or variable quantity of e-liquid from the reservoir; and in which the reservoir is not user-refillable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: AYR LTD.
    Inventors: Kaveh Memari, Adrian Bennett, Ian Murison, Stephen Marsh
  • Patent number: 10368573
    Abstract: Two genes, A622 and NBB1, can be influenced to achieve a decrease of nicotinic alkaloid levels in plants. In particular, suppression of one or both of A622 and NBB1 may be used to decrease nicotine in tobacco plants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: 22nd Century Limited, LLC
    Inventors: Takashi Hashimoto, Akira Kato
  • Patent number: 10368585
    Abstract: A user-replaceable e-liquid reservoir for dispensing e-liquid, the reservoir being inserted into, or otherwise attached to, a portable, personal e-cigarette device and engaging with an electrical or electronic pump fluid transfer system in the device, the device including: an electrical or electronic pump, being configured to transfer e-liquid from the e-liquid reservoir to an atomizing unit in the device, the pump delivering a pre-defined or variable quantity of e-liquid from the reservoir; and in which the reservoir is not user-refillable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: AYR LTD.
    Inventors: Kaveh Memari, Adrian Bennett, Ian Murison, Stephen Marsh
  • Patent number: 10362808
    Abstract: A user-replaceable e-liquid reservoir for dispensing e-liquid, the reservoir being inserted into, or otherwise attached to, a portable, personal e-cigarette device and engaging with an electrical or electronic pump fluid transfer system in the device, the device including: an electrical or electronic pump, being configured to transfer e-liquid from the e-liquid reservoir to an atomizing unit in the device, the pump delivering a pre-defined or variable quantity of e-liquid from the reservoir; and in which the reservoir is not user-refillable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: AYR LTD
    Inventors: Kaveh Memari, Adrian Bennett, Ian Murison, Stephen Marsh
  • Patent number: 10362807
    Abstract: A user-replaceable e-liquid reservoir for dispensing e-liquid, the reservoir being inserted into, or otherwise attached to, a portable, personal e-cigarette device and engaging with an electrical or electronic pump fluid transfer system in the device, the device including: an electrical or electronic pump, being configured to transfer e-liquid from the e-liquid reservoir to an atomizing unit in the device, the pump delivering a pre-defined or variable quantity of e-liquid from the reservoir; and in which the reservoir is not user-refillable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: AYR LTD.
    Inventors: Kaveh Memari, Adrian Bennett, Ian Murison, Stephen Marsh
  • Patent number: 10357062
    Abstract: A user-replaceable e-liquid reservoir for dispensing e-liquid, the reservoir being inserted into, or otherwise attached to, a portable, personal e-cigarette device and engaging with an electrical or electronic pump fluid transfer system in the device, the device including: an electrical or electronic pump, being configured to transfer e-liquid from the e-liquid reservoir to an atomizing unit in the device, the pump delivering a pre-defined or variable quantity of e-liquid from the reservoir; and in which the reservoir is not user-refillable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: AYR LTD.
    Inventors: Kaveh Memari, Adrian Bennett, Ian Murison, Stephen Marsh
  • Patent number: 10357055
    Abstract: The present document generally relates to methods and materials involved in producing tobacco or smokeless tobacco product comprising chlorate. For example, chlorate can be used to reduce tobacco specific nitrosamine content in tobacco or smokeless tobacco products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company LLC
    Inventor: John R. Chipley
  • Patent number: 10349679
    Abstract: A user-replaceable e-liquid reservoir for dispensing e-liquid, the reservoir being inserted into, or otherwise attached to, a portable, personal e-cigarette device and engaging with an electrical or electronic pump fluid transfer system in the device, the device including: an electrical or electronic pump, being configured to transfer e-liquid from the e-liquid reservoir to an atomizing unit in the device, the pump delivering a pre-defined or variable quantity of e-liquid from the reservoir; and in which the reservoir is not user-refillable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: AYR LTD.
    Inventors: Kaveh Memari, Adrian Bennett, Ian Murison, Stephen Marsh
  • Patent number: 10349681
    Abstract: A user-replaceable e-liquid reservoir for dispensing e-liquid, the reservoir being inserted into, or otherwise attached to, a portable, personal e-cigarette device and engaging with an electrical or electronic pump fluid transfer system in the device, the device including: an electrical or electronic pump, being configured to transfer e-liquid from the e-liquid reservoir to an atomizing unit in the device, the pump delivering a pre-defined or variable quantity of e-liquid from the reservoir; and in which the reservoir is not user-refillable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: AYR LTD.
    Inventors: Kaveh Memari, Adrian Bennett, Ian Murison, Stephen Marsh
  • Patent number: 10349680
    Abstract: A user-replaceable e-liquid reservoir for dispensing e-liquid, the reservoir being inserted into, or otherwise attached to, a portable, personal e-cigarette device and engaging with an electrical or electronic pump fluid transfer system in the device, the device including: an electrical or electronic pump, being configured to transfer e-liquid from the e-liquid reservoir to an atomizing unit in the device, the pump delivering a pre-defined or variable quantity of e-liquid from the reservoir; and in which the reservoir is not user-refillable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: AYR LTD.
    Inventors: Kaveh Memari, Adrian Bennett, Ian Murison, Stephen Marsh
  • Patent number: 10342263
    Abstract: A user-replaceable e-liquid reservoir for dispensing e-liquid, the reservoir being inserted into, or otherwise attached to, a portable, personal e-cigarette device and engaging with an electrical or electronic pump fluid transfer system in the device, the device including: an electrical or electronic pump, being configured to transfer e-liquid from the e-liquid reservoir to an atomizing unit in the device, the pump delivering a pre-defined or variable quantity of e-liquid from the reservoir; and in which the reservoir is not user-refillable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: AYR LTD.
    Inventors: Kaveh Memari, Adrian Bennett, Ian Murison, Stephen Marsh
  • Patent number: 10314338
    Abstract: A cartridge of an electronic Taping device includes a mouth-end insert. The mouth-end insert includes at least eight outlets configured to distribute vapor. The mouth-end insert has a surface area surrounding the outlets that is configured to absorb heat from the vapor and reduce a temperature of the vapor exiting the mouth-end insert via the outlets to a temperature ranging from about 60° C. to about 70° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: Altria Client Services LLC
    Inventors: Eric Hawes, Traci Martin, Berina Yerkic-Husejnovic, George Stafford, Alistair Bramley, Nicolas Castro, Ali A. Rostami, Geoffrey Brandon Jordan
  • Patent number: 10306922
    Abstract: Systems and methods for monitoring of biometric and contextual variables to assist in screening for, quantification of, and prediction of smoking behavior, and for assisting in smoking cessation are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: Carrot, Inc.
    Inventors: David S. Utley, Allen Jameson, Jennifer Marler
  • Patent number: 10299516
    Abstract: The electronic article includes an outer housing extending in a longitudinal direction, a reservoir having an outlet and being formed of a compressible elastomeric material, the reservoir being a main supply reservoir configured to contain a liquid. The reservoir is at least partially contained within the outer housing. The article includes a capillary tube having an inlet and an outlet, the inlet of the capillary tube being in fluid communication with the outlet of the reservoir. The article further includes a heater configured to heat and at least initially volatilize the liquid in the capillary tube. The reservoir is configured to be manually compressed to pump the liquid from the reservoir into the capillary tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: ALTRIA CLIENT SERVICES LLC
    Inventors: Christopher S. Tucker, Gerd Kobal, Geoffrey Brandon Jordan, Victor Kasoff
  • Patent number: 10287155
    Abstract: An electronic cigarette vaporizer that includes an air pressure valve or device to enable excess air to escape from an e-liquid reservoir in the vaporizer during pressurized filling of the vaporizer with e-liquid. If the vaporizer includes a ceramic cell, then the air pressure device is the wall of the ceramic cell and the reservoir is the chamber arranged outside of the external wall of the ceramic cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: AYR LTD.
    Inventors: Ian Murison, Stephen Marsh
  • Patent number: 10222762
    Abstract: A method of managing an electronic apparatus including a case containing a microcontroller powered with electrical energy by an electrical energy storage and connected to a time base, a mechanism of measuring light intensity, a mechanism of detecting whether the apparatus is being worn, the microcontroller also being connected to a first display and a second display, arranged, in an active operating mode, to be controlled by the electronic control circuit to display at least a first temporal data item at least provided by the time base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: ETA SA Manufacture Horlogere Suisse
    Inventors: Fabien Balli, Stephane Claude, Jean Laconte
  • Patent number: 10201182
    Abstract: Two genes, A622 and NBB1, can be influenced to achieve a decrease of nicotinic alkaloid levels in plants. In particular, suppression of one or both of A622 and NBB1 may be used to decrease nicotine in tobacco plants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: 22nd Century Limited, LLC
    Inventors: Takashi Hashimoto, Akira Kato
  • Patent number: 10159285
    Abstract: Disclosed is a tip and a corresponding vaporizer with improved ventilation. The vaporizer can include a mouthpiece and, at an opposite end, a vent opening that allows for better ventilation of the vaporizer and improved comfort and flavor during use. The vaporizer tip can also include holes that allow air to flow inside the tip and around the coil to further improve ventilation and comfort of use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: Zipline Innovations, LLC
    Inventor: James Matthew Watson
  • Patent number: 10111456
    Abstract: Two genes, A622 and NBB1, can be influenced to achieve a decrease of nicotinic alkaloid levels in plants. In particular, suppression of one or both of A622 and NBB1 may be used to decrease nicotine in tobacco plants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: 22nd Century Limited, LLC
    Inventors: Takashi Hashimoto, Akira Kato
  • Patent number: 10085478
    Abstract: Two genes, A622 and NBB1, can be influenced to achieve a decrease of nicotinic alkaloid levels in plants. In particular, suppression of one or both of A622 and NBB1 may be used to decrease nicotine in tobacco plants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: 22nd Century Limited, LLC
    Inventors: Takashi Hashimoto, Akira Kato