US Patent Issued to Philip Morris USA on Nov. 3 for "Oral pouch product having soft edge and method of making" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,469, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Philip Morris USA Inc. (Richmond, Va.).

"Oral pouch product having soft edge and method of making" was invented by Fernando L. Chappell (Colonial Heights, Va.) and Danielle R. Crawford (Chester, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An oral pouch product having a soft edge includes an inner filling material enclosed inwardly of at least one seam between opposed layers of porous pouch wrapper. The at least one seam is separated from the periphery of the porous pouch wrapper by an unbonded area of the opposed layers so as to form a soft edge of the pouch wrapper."

The patent was filed on Oct. 7, 2024...