US Patent Issued to Altria Client Services on April 14 for "Cleaner assemblies, apparatuses including a cleaner assembly, methods of making the same, and/or methods of operating the same" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,936, issued on April 14, was assigned to Altria Client Services LLC (Richmond, Va.).

"Cleaner assemblies, apparatuses including a cleaner assembly, methods of making the same, and/or methods of operating the same" was invented by Jarrod W. Chalkley (Mechanicsville, Va.), Robert Powell (Midlothian, Va.), Christopher R. Newcomb (Powhatan, Va.), Jeremy Straight (Midlothian, Va.), Isaac J. McGill (Richmond, Va.), James David Evans (Chesterfield, Va.) and Patrick McElhinney (Chesterfield, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cleaner assembly for an apparatus for making pouch products includes a cleaner roller and a poker roller. The clea...