US Patent Issued to Altria Client Services on Dec. 2 for "Oral pouch product" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,617, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Altria Client Services LLC (Richmond, Va.).

"Oral pouch product" was invented by Baiwei Chen (Glen Allen, Va.), Feng Gao (Midlothian, Va.), Shannon M. Black (Richmond, Va.), Shaoyong Yu (Glen Allen, Va.), Shuzhong Zhuang (Glen Allen, Va.), Benjamin L. Ragland (Richmond, Va.), Rebecca M. Gray (Richmond, Va.), Fadi Aldeek (Richmond, Va.) and Danielle Crawford (Richmond, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An oral pouch product includes a wrapper and a filling material. The wrapper defines a cavity. The filling material is in the cavity. The filling material includes a dry mixture and a liquid mixtur...