US Patent Issued to Altria Client Services on April 1 for "Apparatuses and methods for forming pouch product" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,263,981, issued on April 1, was assigned to Altria Client Services LLC (Richmond, Va.).

"Apparatuses and methods for forming pouch product" was invented by Gregory L. Nelson (Chester, Va.), Christopher Ryan Newcomb (Powhatan, Va.), James D. Evans (Chesterfield, Va.), Thien Nguyen (Glen Allen, Va.), Jarrod W. Chalkley (Mechanicsville, Va.) and Robert V. Powell (Midlothian, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an example embodiment, an apparatus for making pouch products includes a conveyor system. The conveyor system includes a first receiving location along a path of the conveyor system, and a dosing location along the path of the conve...