US Patent Issued to Altria Client Services on Oct. 6 for "Tongue with pre-folding section" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,751,482, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Altria Client Services LLC (Richmond, Va.).

"Tongue with pre-folding section" was invented by Patrick S. McElhinney (Chesterfield, Va.) and Dwight D. Williams (Powhatan, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example embodiment includes a tongue includes a forming surface of a forming channel, the forming channel configured to enable the shaping of shredded material into a desired form as a shredded material is drawn through the forming channel and an arrangement to introduce at least a portion of a web component adjacent a portion of the forming surface such that the introduced web component port...