US Patent Issued to Altria Client Services on July 1 for "Smokeless tobacco article" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,848, issued on July 1, was assigned to Altria Client Services LLC (Richmond, Va.).

"Smokeless tobacco article" was invented by Gregory James Griscik (Midlothian, Va.) and Carl Gregory Miller (Richmond, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for making a smokeless tobacco article can include combining thermoplastic polymer particles with tobacco particles to form a mixture of particles, compressing the mixture of particles within a pressing apparatus to form the mixture into a predetermined shape, separating the mixture from the pressing apparatus such that it retains the predetermined shape, and heating the mixture outside of the...