US Patent Issued to Philip Morris Products on Sept. 30 for "Method to produce a sheet of material containing alkaloids" (Italian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,618, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Philip Morris Products S.A. (Neuchatel, Switzerland).

"Method to produce a sheet of material containing alkaloids" was invented by Michele Del Borrello (Bologna, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for the preparation of a sheet of a material containing alkaloids, said method comprising: -grinding a material containing alkaloids to a powder; -combining the powder with a binder, an aerosol former and water, so as to form a slurry, wherein the slurry comprises: *the powder of the material containing alkaloids in an amount comprised between about 40 percent and...