Nicoventures Trading Limited

R.j. Reynolds Tobacco Company

Dwayne William Beeson

Anthony Richard Gerardi

Andries Don Sebastian

Michael F Davis

Christopher Keller

Frank Kelley St Charles

Darrell Eugene Holton, Jr

Pankaj C Patel

Wesley Steven Jones

David Neil McClanahan

Savannah Johnson

Philip Richard Hunt

Billy Tyrone Conner

Michael Francis Dube

Eric Taylor Hunt

Andinet Amare Gessesse

Thomas A Perfetti

August Joseph Borschke

Chandra K Banerjee

Steven Lee Alderman

Evon Llewellyn Crooks

John-Paul Mua

Ronald Keith Hutchens

Daniel Verdin Cantrell

Nicholas Harrison Watson

Thomas H Poole

Jack Gray Flinchum, Jr

Huamin Gan

Chris J Grimes

Travis O'Neal

Jerry Wayne Marshall

Sharon Pitts Dunlap

Gary R Shelar

Serban C Moldoveanu

Cynthia Stewart Stokes

Laya Katina Palmer Horton

Luis Monsalud

Jeremy Barrett Mabe

Paul G Hoertz

Alvaro Gonzalez-Parra

Timothy Franklin Tilley

Crystal Dawn Hege Byrd

Yan Pu

John E Bunch

Dennis M Riggs

Matthew E Lampe

Nicolas Von Cosmos

Darrell D Williams

Susan Marlene Adams

Wayne Allen Scott

Karter R Yutzy

Samantha S White

Randall Allison Hoots

Allen Riggins

Charles Bradford Rhoades, Jr

Ernest L Cerny, Iii

Keisha Renee Willingham

Karen Womble Wallace

Jr Jack Gray Flinchum

Stephen Cole

William Monroe Iii Coleman

The disclosure provides oral compositions and products including an active agent, a carrier/filler, and a buffer. Preferably, the composition can be configured such that, when in contact with a user's saliva, the composition is at a pH of about 6.5 to about 8. Buffers particularly may include amino acids, such as glycine, or salts thereof, as well as various phosphates.

Buffered oral compositions

The disclosure provides a composition including nanocellulose and at least one active ingredient. Further provided is a fleece material including a nonwoven fabric and nanocellulose. The nanocellulose may be cellulose nanofibrils, nanocrystalline cellulose, or bacterial cellulose.

Oral composition with nanocrystalline cellulose

Provided herein are pouched products including a chromogenic material or an electronic component, wherein the chromogenic material and the electronic component are responsive to a stimulus. The stimulus may be a change in pH, a change in temperature, or exposure to moisture. Such pouched products can be employed to detect various changes associated with the pouched product.

Stimulus-responsive pouch

The disclosure provides for an oral composition, the oral composition including at least one active agent, at least one filler component, and water in an amount sufficient such that the oral composition has a total moisture content of about 15% to about 30% by weight or greater based on the total weight of the oral composition.

Moist oral compositions

The disclosure provides for oral compositions and products that can have a relatively low water content and/or a relatively low water activity. Such compositions and products can comprise at least one active ingredient, a filler/carrier component, and water in an amount of less than 10% by weight, based on the total weight of the composition. Further, the compositions and products can have a water activity of about 0.85 or less.

Oral compositions with reduced water activity

The disclosure provides products configured for oral use, the products including one or more active ingredients and a beet material, at least a portion of the one or more active ingredients being bound to the beet material. In some embodiments, oral products as described herein may include a beet material, a filler material, and one or more active ingredients, at least a portion of the one or more active ingredients being bound to the beet material and the filler material. Active ingredients included in the product may be configured for release according to different release rates, which rates may depend at least in part on the material to which the active ingredient is bound.

Oral composition with beet material

The disclosure provides for oral compositions that exhibit desired properties associated with moist products while incorporating a relatively low water content. Such compositions may include at least one releasable material, at least one filler/carrier component, and at least one water substitute, such as a polyol. The water substituted may be present in an amount of about 25% by weight or greater based on the total weight of the oral composition, and the compositions and products formed therewith can exhibit a relatively low water activity, such as in the range of about 0.85 or less. The present disclosure further provides methods of forming an oral composition with a mouthfeel corresponding to a moist product while having a relatively low water activity.

Oral compositions with reduced water content

A smokeless tobacco product is configured for insertion into the mouth of a user and incorporates materials fromspecies (e.g., tobacco-derived materials) and plant materials from non-species (e.g., non-tobacco plant materials). The tobacco material can have the form of processed tobacco material (e.g., granulated, reconstituted, heat treated, or otherwise processed tobacco laminae and/or stem), tobacco extract (e.g., an extract of water soluble tobacco components obtained by extracting tobacco with water), or a combination thereof. The non-tobacco material can have the form of vegetable pulp (e.g., sugar beet pulp), pulp obtained after removal of water soluble components as a result of water extraction treatment, or a combination thereof. The tobacco product is composed of a mixture of the tobacco material and non-tobacco material components; such as a mixture of tobacco material, tobacco extract and processed non-tobacco material, or a mixture of aqueous tobacco extract and water-extracted vegetable pulp.

Smokeless tobacco composition comprising tobacco-derived material and non-tobacco plant material

A flavor delivery article is provided including a substantially rod-shaped carrier element and a wrapping element. The wrapping element surrounds at least a portion of the carrier element. The delivery article includes a flavor material within one or both of the carrier element and the wrapping element. The flavor delivery article is adapted for delivery of the flavor material to the mouth of a user under mouth conditions in the absence of combustion or other external heating.

Flavor delivery article

Pouch

The disclosure provides oral pouched products including a fleece material with a controlled basis weight. In some embodiments, the oral pouched products may include a material within a porous pouch, wherein the porous pouch includes a fleece material having a basis weight of at least about 35 gsm. In some embodiments, the oral pouched products may include fleece materials have a thickness of at least about 0.2 mm or less than about 0.1 mm. In some embodiments, the pouched products may be configured for rapid or extended release of components contained therein or may be tailored to provide a desired release profile.

Fleece for pouched product with controlled basis weight

The disclosure provides oral products, the oral products including a fleece material that includes fibers and a releasable component. In some embodiments, oral products as described herein may be in the form of a pouchless product including a fleece material having a releasable component associated therewith, or in the form of a pouched product including a fleece material having a releasable component associated therewith in the form of a pouch, containing a substrate material therein.

Fleece for oral product with releasable component

The disclosure provides for solid products configured for oral use, the products including a carrier material; a releasable material; and wherein the releasable material is combined with the carrier material such that the releasable material is configured for sustained release from the solid product when the solid product is positioned in an oral cavity for a consumer. In another aspect, the disclosure provides for a method of preparing a solid product for oral use, the method comprising providing a releasable material in sprayable form; providing a pouch formed of a fibrous material; and spraying a flavor component onto a least a portion of the pouch one or both of before and after filling the pouch with the oral composition.

Oral product with sustained flavor release

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Kernersville, NC, United States of America

Dwayne William Beeson