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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 22, 2022
Filed:
Jan. 20, 2020
Applicant:
U.s. Smokeless Tobacco Company Llc, Richmond, VA (US);
Inventors:
James Arthur Strickland, Richmond, VA (US);
Frank Scott Atchley, Tarpon Springs, FL (US);
Assignee:
U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company LLC, Richmond, VA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A24B 13/00 (2006.01); A24B 15/18 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A24B 13/00 (2013.01); A24B 15/18 (2013.01); Y10T 442/2033 (2015.04);
Abstract
Some embodiments of a tobacco article may include tobacco disposed in a porous matrix. The tobacco article may provide tobacco, tobacco constituents, or both tobacco and tobacco constituents to the consumer's mouth in the form of particles, liquid, or vapor so as to provide tobacco satisfaction to the consumer. In some circumstances, the tobacco may be integrally molded with a plastic material so that at least a portion of the tobacco is disposed in pores of the matrix.