ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,620, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Gamot Global PTE. LTD. (Singapore).

"Use of isothiocyanate in smokeless tobacco products" was invented by Avinash Seth (San Dimas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods that use a tobacco product to reduce or mitigate some of the negative effects of tobacco consumption, particularly cancer development are described. The tobacco product contains (a) nicotine, (b) at least one of an isothiocyanate or isothiocyanate precursor, (c) myrosinase and (d) a synthetic isothiocyanate. The product can further include at least one of thymoquinone, resveratrol, synthetic vitamin C, thymoquinone resve...