US Patent Issued to Altria Client Services on July 21 for "Dissolvable-chewable exhausted-tobacco tablet" (Virginia, Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,332, issued on July 21, was assigned to Altria Client Services LLC (Richmond, Va.).

"Dissolvable-chewable exhausted-tobacco tablet" was invented by Feng Gao (Midlothian, Va.), Diane L. Gee (Chesterfield, Va.), Shuzhong Zhuang (Glen Allen, Va.), Phillip M. Hulan (Midlothian, Va.) and William J. Burke (Nashville, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A exhausted-tobacco tablet that includes a solid solution of soluble fiber and one or more sugar alcohols, the solid solution having a glass transition temperature of less than 40deg C., and exhausted-tobacco is dispersed in the solid solution, and one or more additives dispersed in the sol...