121 |
NUCLEIC ACID SEQUENCES ENCODING TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS REGULATING ALKALOID BIOSYNTHESIS AND THEIR USE IN MODIFYING PLANT METABOLISM |
US14261203 |
2014-04-24 |
US20140259216A1 |
2014-09-11 |
Jonathan PAGE; Andrea T. Todd |
Plant metabolism and alkaloid levels can be regulated by transcription factors that regulate the nicotinic alkaloid biosynthetic pathway. In one embodiment, the disclosure provides a transcription factor that negatively regulates alkaloid biosynthesis, such as nicotine biosynthesis. |
122 |
Nucleic acid sequences encoding transcription factors regulating nicotine alkaloid biosynthesis and their use in modifying plant metabolism |
US12601752 |
2008-05-23 |
US08822757B2 |
2014-09-02 |
Jonathan Page; Andrea T. Todd |
Plant metabolism and alkaloid levels can be regulated by transcription factors that regulate the nicotinic alkaloid biosynthetic pathway. In one embodiment, the disclosure provides a transcription factor that negatively regulates alkaloid biosynthesis, such as nicotine biosynthesis. |
123 |
Nucleic acid sequences encoding transcription factors regulating alkaloid biosynthesis and their use in modifying plant metabolism |
US13464212 |
2012-05-04 |
US08624083B2 |
2014-01-07 |
Jonathan Page; Andrea T. Todd |
Plant metabolism and alkaloid levels can be regulated by transcription factors that regulate the nicotinic alkaloid biosynthetic pathway. |
124 |
REDUCING LEVELS OF NICOTINIC ALKALOIDS IN PLANTS |
US13082953 |
2011-04-08 |
US20140007305A1 |
2014-01-02 |
Takashi HASHIMOTO; Akira Kato |
Two genes, A622 and NBB1, can be influenced to achieve a decrease of nicotinic alkaloid levels in plants. In particular, suppression of one or both of A622 and NBB1 may be used to decrease nicotine in tobacco plants. |
125 |
Smoking article |
US12213009 |
2008-06-12 |
US08499767B2 |
2013-08-06 |
Nikolaus Martin Ricketts; Dionis Borgognon; Charles Kuersteiner |
A smoking article comprises a rod of smokable material circumscribed by a rod wrapper and a filter comprising at least one filter segment circumscribed by a filter wrapper. The rod of smokable material and the filter are attached to one another by tipping paper and the smoking article comprises a tear ribbon between the at least one filter segment and the tipping paper. The tear ribbon is affixed to at least one of the tipping paper and the filter wrapper. |
126 |
Colored smoke module for cigarette |
US12324413 |
2008-11-26 |
US08267095B2 |
2012-09-18 |
Gal Markel |
A colored smoke module is disclosed that is mountable to at least a portion of a cigarette or other smoking device. The colored smoke module produces colored smoke when burned. Further, the colored smoke module is user mountable to a cigarette or other smoking device. |
127 |
One shot cigarette system |
US12319787 |
2009-01-12 |
US08251072B1 |
2012-08-28 |
Scott D. Zepp |
A wrapper is fabricated of a biodegradable burnable material. The wrapper is in a generally cylindrical configuration. The wrapper has front and rear ends. In this manner a major chamber is formed. A bowl is fabricated of a biodegradable burnable material. The bowl has a peripheral edge. The bowl is attached to the wrapper adjacent to the front end of the wrapper. The bowl forms a minor chamber within the major chamber. The bowl extends interiorly of the wrapper. A quantity of smokable material is inserted into the bowl. In this manner the smokable material is lit and smoked. |
128 |
Smoking article with bypass channel |
US11643868 |
2006-12-22 |
US07987856B2 |
2011-08-02 |
Shalva Gedevanishvili; Mohammad R. Hajaligol |
A smoking article having a tobacco rod of a smokable material and a filter system attached to the tobacco rod of smokable material. The filter system includes a first filter portion and a second filter portion, the second filter portion concentrically positioned with respect to the first filter portion and having a lower resistance to draw than the first filter portion during an initial puff on the smoking article. The second filter portion closes upon contact with the mainstream smoke of the initial puff, such that after the initial puff, the first filter portion has the lower resistance to draw. |
129 |
Smoking Article Warning Device |
US12861210 |
2010-08-23 |
US20100313900A1 |
2010-12-16 |
Clifton C. Heath |
A user engageable device disposed within the tobacco burning path of a smoking article's ember at a pre-selected point. The device may include a visual and/or audible and/or olfactory warning component which alerts the user in response to a proximate ember. This provides one or a combination of a visual, audible, or olfactory alert to the user that the ember has reached a predetermined point. The device is preferably in the form of a sleeve frictionally engageable around the smoking article, but can also may be engaged upon or impregnated into a wrapper of the article's cylinder. Alternatively, the sleeve type device may be disposed within the wrapper. Alternatively the indicator material may also be in the form of selectively placed integrated or stick-on patches. |
130 |
Smoking Article and a Method and Apparatus for the Manufacture of Smoking Articles |
US12525526 |
2007-11-16 |
US20100180904A1 |
2010-07-22 |
Karl Kaljura |
One embodiment of the invention provides apparatus for manufacturing a smoking article. The apparatus includes an ecreteur having at least one trimming disk configured to trim a tobacco rod for a smoking article to have at least one end region of increased tobacco density. The at least one trimming disk is further configured to trim a body region of the tobacco rod such that the body region has a variable tobacco mass per unit length, where the body region is distinct from said at least one end region of increased density. |
131 |
FILTER CIGARILLO |
US12644573 |
2009-12-22 |
US20100154808A1 |
2010-06-24 |
Lars Boll; Eric De Borst |
A cigarillo includes a tobacco rod including a tobacco cut filler circumscribed by an inner binder, a filter adjacent to the tobacco rod, a band of tipping paper circumscribing the filter, and an outer wrapper of natural tobacco circumscribing the tobacco rod and a rod end portion of the band of tipping paper such that a mouth end portion of the band of tipping paper is visible. A method of making the cigarillo includes convoluting an inner binder around a tobacco cut filler to form a tobacco rod, axially aligning and abutting a filter with the tobacco rod, convoluting a band of tipping paper around the filter, and convoluting an outer wrapper of natural tobacco around the tobacco rod and a rod end portion of the band of tipping paper such that a mouth end portion of the tipping paper is visible. |
132 |
Temperature Sensitive Powder for Enhanced Flavor Delivery in Smoking Articles |
US12559331 |
2009-09-14 |
US20100000552A1 |
2010-01-07 |
Beverley C. Woodson; Deborah J. Newman |
Improved delivery of additive materials to mainstream smoke produced by smoking articles is provided through the use of a temperature sensitive powder containing an additive material, such as a flavor component, in a smoking article such as a cigarette. The temperature sensitive powder is subjected to heat which causes the temperature sensitive powder to release at least a portion of the additive material into mainstream smoke. The temperature sensitive powder encapsulates the additive materials and other portions of the smoking articles, such as sorbents or filter materials, in order to reduce additive material migration during storage. |
133 |
Novel Cigar |
US12550032 |
2009-08-28 |
US20090314300A1 |
2009-12-24 |
Jack B. Cooper |
A novel cigar is provided with an elongated cigar puller device which extends into the interior of the cigar. By removing the cigar puller from the cigar, the tobacco fill material of the cigar is disrupted so as to improve the draw of the cigar. Once the cigar puller is removed from the tobacco fill material, a flavorant and/or aromatic can be infused into the less dense tobacco fill material which is provided upon the removal of the cigar puller. |
134 |
Smokable Rod for a Cigarette |
US12391514 |
2009-02-24 |
US20090151739A1 |
2009-06-18 |
August Joseph Borschke; Dwayne William Beeson; Sharon Pitts Dunlap; Thomas Albert Perfetti |
A smokable rod for a smoking article, such as a cigarette, possesses a co-axial or concentric construction. The outer material that circumscribes the inner core in an annular fashion is composed of a tobacco material treated with a burn suppressing agent, and the outer material acts as a substrate for an aerosol forming material. A preferred aerosol forming material is glycerin. An outer paper wrapper circumscribes the length of the smokable rod, and another paper wrapping material also can circumscribe the inner core material. In use, one end of the smokable rod is lit, and the tobacco cut filler of the inner core burns to yield tobacco smoke. The outer material smolders, and hence thermal decomposition products of the outer tobacco material and volatilized aerosol forming material are produced. Alternatively, a smokable rod can be provided by positioning the tobacco cut filler in the outer annular region, and by constructing the inner core portion using the tobacco material treated with aerosol forming material and a burn suppressing agent. |
135 |
Smoking article with valve |
US12073542 |
2008-03-06 |
US20090014020A1 |
2009-01-15 |
Gail L. Yoss; Raquel Olegario; Michael Braunshteyn; Rowland W. Dwyer |
A smoking article having a cylinder of smoking material, a hollow tube within the cylinder of smoking material, and a filter attached to the cylinder of smoking material. The filter includes an upstream segment containing an aerosol former, a downstream segment containing a sorbent material, and a valve positioned between the upstream segment and the downstream segment. The valve has a first position in which the valve is closed and a second position in which the valve is open and allows the passage of smoke through the filter. |
136 |
Smoking article |
US12213009 |
2008-06-12 |
US20080314399A1 |
2008-12-25 |
Nikolaus Martin Ricketts; Dionis Borgognon; Charles Kuersteiner |
A smoking article comprises a rod of smokable material circumscribed by a rod wrapper and a filter comprising at least one filter segment circumscribed by a filter wrapper. The rod of smokable material and the filter are attached to one another by tipping paper and the smoking article comprises a tear ribbon between the at least one filter segment and the tipping paper. The tear ribbon is affixed to at least one of the tipping paper and the filter wrapper. |
137 |
Slim Cigarette |
US11883355 |
2006-01-27 |
US20080168998A1 |
2008-07-17 |
Thomas Badertscher |
A filter cigarette comprising a tobacco rod which is circumscribed by a cigarette paper and a filter, said filter comprising a tobacco-side filter element and a mouth-side filter element, said filter cigarette having a diameter of about 4 mm to about 7 mm, yielding a smoke yield of 1 mg condensate or less and yielding a nicotine yield of 0.2 mg or less. The filter cigarette of the is characterized in that the overall length of the filter is about 25 mm to about 40 mm, the length of the tobacco-side filter element is about 10 mm to about 25 mm and the tobacco-side filter element comprises a ventilation zone. |
138 |
Smoking article with improved delivery profile |
US11641673 |
2006-12-20 |
US20070186945A1 |
2007-08-16 |
Raquel Olegario; Mike Braunshteyn; Gail Yoss; Jim Lyons-Hart |
A smoking article, which provides lower amounts of total particulate matter in a latter portion of its puff count, includes a cylinder of smoking material, a combustible hollow tube within the cylinder of smoking material, and a heat sink at a downstream end of the hollow tube. The smoking article also includes a filter system attached to the cylinder of smoking material having a sorbent material and at least one downstream segment of filtering material. |
139 |
Smoking article with bypass channel |
US11643868 |
2006-12-22 |
US20070169785A1 |
2007-07-26 |
Shalva Gedevanishvili; Mohammad Hajaligol |
A smoking article having a tobacco rod of a smokable material and a filter system attached to the tobacco rod of smokable material. The filter system includes a first filter portion and a second filter portion, the second filter portion concentrically positioned with respect to the first filter portion and having a lower resistance to draw than the first filter portion during an initial puff on the smoking article. The second filter portion closes upon contact with the mainstream smoke of the initial puff, such that after the initial puff, the first filter portion has the lower resistance to draw. |
140 |
Temperature sensitive powder for enhanced flavor delivery in smoking articles |
US10979104 |
2004-11-02 |
US20060090769A1 |
2006-05-04 |
Beverley Woodson; Deborah Newman |
Improved delivery of additive materials to mainstream smoke produced by smoking articles is provided through the use of a temperature sensitive powder containing an additive material, such as a flavor component, in a smoking article such as a cigarette. The temperature sensitive powder is subjected to heat which causes the temperature sensitive powder to release at least a portion of the additive material into mainstream smoke. The temperature sensitive powder encapsulates the additive materials and other portions of the smoking articles, such as sorbents or filter materials, in order to reduce additive material migration during storage. |