US Patent Issued to R.J. Reynolds Tobacco on July 29 for "Dehydration of tobacco and tobacco-derived materials" (North Carolina, Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,616, issued on July 29, was assigned to R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Winston-Salem, N.C.).

"Dehydration of tobacco and tobacco-derived materials" was invented by John-Paul Mua (Advance, N.C.), Crystal Dawn Hege Byrd (Lexington, N.C.), Brian Keith Nordskog (Winston-Salem, N.C.), Andries Don Sebastian (Winston-Salem, N.C.), David Troy Turfler (Collierville, Tenn.), Christopher Keller (Collierville, Tenn.) and Jeremy Barrett Mabe (Lexington, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of modifying the moisture level of (e.g., dehydrating) a tobacco plant or portion thereof, a tobacco-derived material, a tobacco product, or a tobacco addi...