US Patent Issued to Philip Morris Products on Aug. 19 for "Casting apparatus for the production of a cast web of a material containing alkaloids" (Italian, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,933, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Philip Morris Products S.A. (Neuchatel, Switzerland).

"Casting apparatus for the production of a cast web of a material containing alkaloids" was invented by Marco Dottor (Bologna, Italy), Ayoub Lhaou (Nonantola, Italy) and Marc A.F. Van Den Boogaart (Giez, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A casting apparatus for the production of a cast web of a material containing alkaloids includes (a) a casting box having casting box walls including a first and a second opposite walls, and adapted to contain a slurry; (b) a movable support; (c) a casting blade adapted to cast the slurry contained ...