ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,404, issued on May 13.
"Smoking article and method" was invented by Daniel S. Sinclair Jr. (Mandeville, La.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of constructing a cigar includes the providing of a plurality of frusto-conically shaped tubes, each tube being of a smokable material such as a spirally wrapped layer of tobacco material. The tubes are nested, one tube inside the other tube. The nested tubes are then attached to a mouthpiece having a socket that is internally threaded. The nested tubes and mouthpiece are packaged either filled with tobacco filler material, partially filled, or unfilled in a container."
The patent was fi...