US Patent Issued to Altria Client Services on Aug. 4 for "Smokeless tobacco packaging system and method" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,930, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Altria Client Services LLC (Richmond, Va.).

"Smokeless tobacco packaging system and method" was invented by Jason Andrew Macko (Richmond, Va.), James Lindsay Clark (Richmond, Va.), Shannon Maxwell Black (Richmond, Va.), Andrew Nathan Carroll (Chester, Va.) and Srinivasan Janardhan (Glen Allen, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments of a smokeless tobacco system include a container including a plurality of preformed smokeless tobacco products configured to generally retain their shape and integrity during processing, shipping, and consumer handling. One or more of the preformed smokel...