US Patent Issued to Philip Morris Products on July 7 for "Applying an additive from within during shaping of a sheet into a rod" (Italian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,668, issued on July 7, was assigned to Philip Morris Products S.A. (Neuchatel, Switzerland).

"Applying an additive from within during shaping of a sheet into a rod" was invented by Matteo Balboni (Sala Bolognese, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing a rod (3) containing herbaceous material comprises the steps of: providing a sheet material (5) containing herbaceous material; shaping the sheet material into a rod-shape by conveying the sheet material along a conveying direction (7) through a funnel-shaped converging device (13); and dispensing an additive (21) onto the sheet material within the converging device....