US Patent Issued to British American Tobacco on March 18 for "Additive assembly for a tobacco filter tow" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,964, issued on March 18, was assigned to British American Tobacco Ltd. (London).

"Additive assembly for a tobacco filter tow" was invented by Paul Gibson (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of preparing an additive assembly for insertion into tobacco industry product filter tow, comprising: providing a web comprising an array of discrete portions of additive disposed in or on the web, the array comprising columns of at least two discrete portions of additive across a width of the web; and forming a chain of discrete portions of additive in the web. The chain comprises: connecting portions that connect adjacent discrete p...