US Patent Issued to MAGI'S LAB on March 17 for "Reduction of amines and nitrosamines in cigarette smoke vapors through a filter functionalized with olive tree polyphenols" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,575,601, issued on March 17, was assigned to MAGI'S LAB SRL (Roverto, Italy).

"Reduction of amines and nitrosamines in cigarette smoke vapors through a filter functionalized with olive tree polyphenols" was invented by Kevin Donato (Brescia, Italy), Matteo Bertelli (Brescia, Italy), Simone Cristoni (Milan), Kristjana Dhuli (Brescia, Italy), Maria Chiara Medori (Brescia, Italy), Jurgen Kaftalli (Brescia, Italy), Gabriele Bonetti (San Felice del Benaco, Italy) and Cecilia Micheletti (Brescia, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The traditional filters used in cigarettes are found to be ineffective in trapping the toxic chemical compounds...