US Patent Issued to NICOVENTURES TRADING on May 6 for "Wrapping material for tobacco industry products" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,382, issued on May 6, was assigned to NICOVENTURES TRADING Ltd. (London).

"Wrapping material for tobacco industry products" was invented by Thomas Robert Allen (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An elongate web of wrapping material having a longitudinal axis and a series of lines of weakening spaced from each other in a direction along the axis is disclosed. Each line of weakening is configured to form an extraction opening for the removal of smoking articles from a bundle of smoking articles wrapped in a longitudinal section of the wrapping material cut from the web. A portion of each line of weakening extends in a longitudinal ...