Rai Strategic Holdings, Inc.

Kraft Foods Group Brands LLC

Recot Inc.

Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc.

R.j. Reynolds Tobacco Company

Patsy Coppola

David Smith

Edward Dickinson

Charles Jacob Novak, Iii

John DePiano

Andrew Cecil Harvey

Steven Lee Alderman

Frank S Silveira

Paul Andrew Brinkley

Grady Lance Dooly

John William Wolber

Michael Laine

James William McClellan

Malcolm E Taylor

Ponnattu Kurian Joseph

Daniel Robert Feldmeier

Stephen Guerrera

Richard Terrazzano

Stephen N Forti

Lawrence Alan Graham

Edward Joseph Goldman

Todd Charles McNeel

Mary Amanda Lamp

Kenneth R Brocker

Brian Patrick Lawless

Metty Poei

Paul Edward Doll

Gregorio Ramon Maramba Abesames

G Shantanu Reddy

Robert R Andrews

Mohan Krishnan

Adam J Rivard

Kevin E Verzal

Iii Charles Jacob Novak

David Jay Smith

The present disclosure relates to atomizers for an aerosol delivery device such as a smoking article. The atomizer may include a liquid transport element and a wire extending along at least a portion of a longitudinal length thereof. The wire may define contact portions configured to engage heater terminals and a heating portion configured to produce heat. The heating portion may include a variable coil spacing. In other atomizers, the wire may extend at least partially through the liquid transport element proximate the contact portions. Related inputs, cartridges, aerosol production assemblies, and methods of forming atomizers are also provided.

Atomizer for an aerosol delivery device and related input, aerosol production assembly, cartridge, and method

The present disclosure relates to atomizers for an aerosol delivery device such as a smoking article. The atomizer may include a liquid transport element and a wire continuously extending along a longitudinal length thereof. The wire may define end portions, contact portions, and a heating portion. The wire may be continuously wound about the liquid transport element such that each of the portions of the wire defines coils. A related input, cartridge, and method of forming atomizers also provided.

Atomizer for an aerosol delivery device formed from a continuously extending wire and related input, cartridge, and method

A food package for segregating ingredients of a multi-component food product, such as the multiple components of a sandwich, the package comprising an outer container to house a first food component and at least one flexible envelope or barrier film layer that encloses at least one intermediate food component allowing for separation of the intermediate food component during extended periods of storage and prior to opening the product. A method for opening the package comprises applying a pulling force to an externally located protruding end portion of the envelope, such that the envelope peels apart and separates into ruptured layers that are pulled out of the food product and out of the outer container by the continual pulling force from the protruding end portion. Another method for opening comprises heating the container such that the barrier film layer ruptures upon heating, thus providing for components of the food product to combine.

Food package for segregating ingredients of a multi-component food product

A food package for segregating ingredients of a multi-component food product, such as the multiple components of a sandwich, the package comprising an outer container to house a first food component and at least one flexible envelope or barrier film layer that encloses at least one intermediate food component allowing for separation of the intermediate food component during extended periods of storage and prior to opening the product. A method for opening the package comprises applying a pulling force to an externally located protruding end portion of the envelope, such that the envelope peels apart and separates into ruptured layers that are pulled out of the food product and out of the outer container by the continual pulling force from the protruding end portion.

An implantable medical system includes a medical lead including an insulating sheath and a conductor and an anchoring device. The anchoring device defines an inner lumen adapted to coaxially receive the medical lead, where the inner lumen has an effective diameter. The anchoring device includes a sleeve including a substantially elongate body defining an outer surface and an inner bore. The anchoring device also has a compression member including a first end, a second end, and an intermediate portion between the first and second ends. The compression member is at least partially embedded in the sleeve such that compression of the first and second ends of the compression member toward one another causes the effective diameter of at least a portion of the inner lumen of the anchoring device to reversibly increase.

Compression member suture sleeve

Apparatus and method for cooking snack food pieces features a drum-type fryer which transports individual, die-cut piece preforms through hot oil contained within a cooking tank defined between the periphery of the drum and a housing in which the drum is contained. Vacuum transfer and feed rollers transfer the individual piece preforms from a die-cutting roller assembly onto the drum for cooking, and a similar roller transfers the cooked snack food pieces from the drum to a take-away conveyor for subsequent, downstream processing. The pieces are retained by suction against molding surfaces of frying mold elements distributed over the periphery of the frying drum.

Apparatus for form-frying snack food product

Method for form-frying snack food product

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Bedford, MA, United States of America

Patsy Coppola