US Patent Issued to Imperial Tobacco on July 14 for "Smokeless article" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,677,870, issued on July 14, was assigned to Imperial Tobacco Ltd. (Bristol, Great Britain).

"Smokeless article" was invented by Steven Hall (Liverpool, Great Britain) and Haydn Jones (Liverpool, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A smokeless article for oral consumption including a pouch, the pouch including a porous substrate enclosing a content, the content having a nicotinic compound, wherein the porous substrate has a continuous coatl8ing of a non-porous, saliva-stable material, and wherein the coating is frangible, such that in use the coating fractures on chewing. Also described is a method of manufacturing a smokeless ar...