US Patent Issued to R.J. Reynolds Tobacco on Oct. 7 for "Apparatus for manufacturing a smokeless tobacco product incorporating an object, and associated method" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,319, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Winston-Salem, N.C.).

"Apparatus for manufacturing a smokeless tobacco product incorporating an object, and associated method" was invented by Charles J. Novak III (Winston-Salem, N.C.) and David Bovender (Walnut Cove, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and associated method are provided for manufacturing a smokeless tobacco product including tobacco material and at least one object. A forming unit is configured to form a continuous supply of a pouch material into a continuous tubular member defining a longitudinal axis. A tobacco insertion unit is configu...