MUMBAI, India, June 13 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517044342 A) filed by International Tobacco Machinery Poland Sp. Z O. O., Radom, Poland, on May 7, for 'feeding apparatus for feeding segments of tobacco industry material, feeding module for feeding segments of tobacco industry material and method of feeding tobacco industry rod-like articles.'

Inventor(s) include Deka, Michal; and Slowik, Jacek.

The application for the patent was published on June 13, under issue no. 24/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A feeding apparatus (30, 40) for feeding segments (A) of tobacco industry material, comprising a hopper (21, 41) for storing rods (MA) of tobacco indu...