US Patent Issued to McNeil on April 29 for "Product and manufacturing process for a gum" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,520, issued on April 29, was assigned to McNeil AB (Helsingborg, Sweden).

"Product and manufacturing process for a gum" was invented by Katarina Lindell (Eslov, Sweden), Kristina Thyresson (Lund, Sweden), Jill Nilgard (Helsingborg, Sweden) and Martin Edman (Klippan, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a nicotine chewing gum giving an immediate release and uptake of nicotine as well as an extended release and uptake of nicotine as well as describing suitable manufacturing processes for such chewing gum formulations and the use of the chewing gum for the treatment of a human being suffering from cravings from ...