US Patent Issued to Philip Morris Products on May 27 for "Method and apparatus to cast a sheet of material containing alkaloids" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,397, issued on May 27, was assigned to Philip Morris Products S.A. (Neuchatel, Switzerland).

"Method and apparatus to cast a sheet of material containing alkaloids" was invented by Michele Del Borrello (Vasto, Italy), Clemente Iadanza (Cosenza, Italy), Ivan Prestia (Calderara di Reno, Italy) and Sandro Sartini (Bologna, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for casting a sheet of a material containing alkaloids, the method comprising: -forming a slurry of the material containing alkaloids, the slurry having a viscosity value; -storing the slurry in a first tank; -providing a first flow-path and a seco...