ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,184, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to IP Trademark Holdings Inc. (Mandeville, La.).

"Method and apparatus for constructing finished smoking products wherein a reinforcing cone nested in a smoking shell is switched such that the smoking shell is nested in the reinforcing cone while smokable filler is added to the smoking shell" was invented by Pedro Almonte (Santiago, Dominican Republic).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of fabricating a finished smokable product comprising the steps of: obtaining a packaged smoking kit including a package having sides, top and bottom portions and a package interior; a smoking shell, the smoking ...