A24B 9/00
Control of the moisture content of tobacco products
Official title: Control of the moisture content of tobacco products, e.g. cigars, cigarettes, pipe tobacco ({final drying of cigars A24C1/383, of cigarettes A24C5/603}; devices for use by the smoker for controlling the moisture content of tobacco products A24F25/00)
A24B9/00 (Control of the moisture content of tobacco products) appears on 32 US grants and 54 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A24B- Granted patents
- 32
- Published applications
- 54
- Assignees
- 33
- Inventors
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- Latest grant
- 18 Aug 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Method of processing tobacco fines into a non-continuous tobacco material18 Aug 2026US 12,708,134 B2Nicoventures Trading Limited
- Method for treating tobacco material and treated tobacco material7 Jul 2026US 12,672,666 B2Philip Morris Products S. A.
- Dehydration of tobacco and tobacco-derived materials29 Jul 2025US 12,369,616 B2R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
- Oral product with cellulosic flavor stabilizer1 Jul 2025US 12,342,847 B2Nicoventures Trading Limited
- Tobacco blend29 Oct 2024US 12,127,580 B2Nicoventures Trading Limited
- Method for treating tobacco material and treated tobacco material17 Sep 2026US 2026/0271989 A1Philip Morris Products S. A.
- Flavor sustained-release composition for heat-not-burn cigarettes and preparation method23 Jul 2026US 2026/0206825 A1Smoore International Holdings Limited
- Cannabis-based aerosol-generating substrates, articles, systems, and methods with controlled cannabinoid delivery23 Jul 2026US 2026/0206833 A1Smoore International Holdings Limited
- Method and apparatus for drying a strip of pasty material intended for the production of smoking articles18 Jun 2026US 2026/0165361 A1Comas - Costruzioni Macchine Speciali - S.P.A.
- Controlled release active materials for oral products and methods of preparing the same11 Jun 2026US 2026/0157418 A1Altria Client Services LLC
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method and apparatus for conditioning tobacco23US 4,346,524 AHauni-Werke Korber & Co. KG · 1982
- Method of and apparatus for measuring the moisture content of fibrous materials22US 5,086,279 AKorber AG · 1992
- Corrosion evaluation testing method of coated metallic material and apparatus employed therefor18US 4,294,667 ANippon Paint Co., Ltd. · 1981
- Electronic moisture meter15US 4,114,090 AImasco Limited · 1978
- Automatic basis sheet weight and moisture content measuring apparatus13US 5,211,252 AR. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company · 1993