US Patent Issued to R.J. Reynolds Tobacco on Feb. 4 for "Smokeless tobacco composition comprising tobacco-derived material and non-tobacco plant material" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,213,509, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Winston-Salem, N.C.).

"Smokeless tobacco composition comprising tobacco-derived material and non-tobacco plant material" was invented by Dwayne William Beeson (Kernersville, N.C.), Jack Gray Flinchum Jr. (Clemmons, N.C.) and Huamin Gan (Clemmons, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A smokeless tobacco product is configured for insertion into the mouth of a user and incorporates materials from Nicotiana species (e.g., tobacco-derived materials) and plant materials from non-Nicotiana species (e.g., non-tobacco plant materials). The tobacco material can have the form of pr...