US Patent Issued to IP Trademark Holdings on Aug. 11 for "Smoking article and method for a cigar or cigarillo using optional second filter and slidable sleeve" (Dominican Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,152, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to IP Trademark Holdings Inc. (Mandeville, La.).

"Smoking article and method for a cigar or cigarillo using optional second filter and slidable sleeve" was invented by Pedro Almonte (Santiago, Dominican Republic).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of constructing a cigar, including the steps of: (a) providing a cigar shell having an interior, and a form mandrel having an interior mandrel volume and being substantially located inside the interior shell volume, wherein the cigar shell, form mandrel are packaged for sale inside packaging; opening the packaging and removing the cigar shell, and fo...