US Patent Issued to Altria Client Services on May 13 for "Oral pouch product" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,412, issued on May 13, was assigned to Altria Client Services LLC (Richmond, Va.).

"Oral pouch product" was invented by Baiwei Chen (Richmond, 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.) and Fadi Aldeek (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 mixture. The dry mixture includes a cellul...