US Patent Issued to DAICEL on April 15 for "Tow band for heated tobacco product tip, tip for heated tobacco product, method for manufacturing tow band for heated tobacco product tip, and method for manufacturing heated tobacco product tip" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,291, issued on April 15, was assigned to DAICEL Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Tow band for heated tobacco product tip, tip for heated tobacco product, method for manufacturing tow band for heated tobacco product tip, and method for manufacturing heated tobacco product tip" was invented by Tomoharu Miyashita (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tow band for heated tobacco product tip is a tow band of cellulose acetate provided by uniting and crimping a plurality of filaments into a bundle, in which a total denier is set to a value in a range of 10000 to 40000 (inclusive) and a filament denier is set to a value in a range of 6.0 to 20.0 (in...