US Patent Issued to R.J. Reynolds Tobacco on Oct. 6 for "Systems and apparatus for reducing tobacco-specific nitrosamines in dark-fire cured tobacco through electronic control of curing conditions" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,751,480, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Winston-Salem, N.C.).

"Systems and apparatus for reducing tobacco-specific nitrosamines in dark-fire cured tobacco through electronic control of curing conditions" was invented by Marvin Riddick (Winston-Salem, N.C.), Jerry Marshall (Winston-Salem, N.C.) and Robert Parker (Winston-Salem, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to systems and apparatus for dark-fire curing of tobacco. Specially, the present invention provides a central control system for controlling and adjusting conditions within a structure utilized for curing dark-fired tobac...