US Patent Issued to Altria Client Services on Oct. 28 for "Alternating patterns in cigarette wrapper, smoking article and method" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,367, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Altria Client Services LLC (Richmond, Va.).

"Alternating patterns in cigarette wrapper, smoking article and method" was invented by Timothy S. Sherwood (Midlothian, Va.), Robert N. Smith (Glen Allen, Va.), Marc W. Rose (Mechanicsville, Va.) and Tyrone W. Murray (Midlothian, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cigarette wrapper includes transversely extending banded regions applied by a printing technique, such as gravure printing. The banded regions may be applied in a one or more application of a printing composition that may be an aqueous starch solution also containing an anti-wrinkling age...