US Patent Issued to Miquel y Costas & Miquel on Sept. 30 for "Cigarette tube, piano for a cigarette tube, method for forming a cigarette tube, and packaging for multiple cigarette tubes" (Dutch Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,622, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Miquel y Costas & Miquel S.A. (Barcelona, Spain).

"Cigarette tube, piano for a cigarette tube, method for forming a cigarette tube, and packaging for multiple cigarette tubes" was invented by Marinus Van Den Berg (Oud-Beijerland, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a cigarette tube (1) comprising a shell (2) with an inhalation end (8), a lighting end (9) and an internal channel (3) with a center line (Q), wherein the shell (2) comprises a cigarette paper (5) around the center line (Q), wherein the cigarette paper (5) has meeting overlapping edges that form a se...