A24D
Cigars
Official title: Cigars; cigarettes; tobacco smoke filters; mouthpieces of cigars or cigarettes; manufacture of tobacco smoke filters or mouthpieces
A24D (Cigars) appears on 3,783 US grants and 5,092 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A24D- Granted patents
- 3,783
- Published applications
- 5,092
- Assignees
- 706
- Inventors
- 5,379
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 38 | 0 |
| 1977 | 52 | 0 |
| 1978 | 45 | 0 |
| 1979 | 35 | 0 |
| 1980 | 47 | 0 |
| 1981 | 53 | 0 |
| 1982 | 35 | 0 |
| 1983 | 33 | 0 |
| 1984 | 38 | 0 |
| 1985 | 57 | 0 |
| 1986 | 53 | 0 |
| 1987 | 64 | 0 |
| 1988 | 55 | 0 |
| 1989 | 44 | 0 |
| 1990 | 53 | 0 |
| 1991 | 72 | 0 |
| 1992 | 80 | 0 |
| 1993 | 46 | 0 |
| 1994 | 33 | 0 |
| 1995 | 47 | 0 |
| 1996 | 36 | 0 |
| 1997 | 42 | 0 |
| 1998 | 54 | 0 |
| 1999 | 45 | 0 |
| 2000 | 30 | 0 |
| 2001 | 23 | 5 |
| 2002 | 18 | 41 |
| 2003 | 33 | 56 |
| 2004 | 43 | 95 |
| 2005 | 26 | 114 |
| 2006 | 18 | 91 |
| 2007 | 26 | 80 |
| 2008 | 18 | 80 |
| 2009 | 29 | 80 |
| 2010 | 58 | 74 |
| 2011 | 53 | 110 |
| 2012 | 51 | 128 |
| 2013 | 86 | 121 |
| 2014 | 76 | 161 |
| 2015 | 113 | 203 |
| 2016 | 92 | 160 |
| 2017 | 93 | 159 |
| 2018 | 117 | 192 |
| 2019 | 149 | 250 |
| 2020 | 148 | 310 |
| 2021 | 170 | 354 |
| 2022 | 188 | 422 |
| 2023 | 209 | 445 |
| 2024 | 304 | 590 |
| 2025 | 279 | 399 |
| 2026 | 176 | 372 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Main groups
Granted patents with any code in the group
Recent patents
- Smoking article including novel flavoring agent6 Oct 2026US 12,751,481 B2Kt&G Corporation
- Aerosol-generating material6 Oct 2026US 12,751,483 B2Nicoventures Trading Limited
- Consumable for use with a non-combustible aerosol provision device6 Oct 2026US 12,751,484 B2Nicoventures Trading Limited
- Aerosol generation apparatus and aerosol generation substrate6 Oct 2026US 12,751,491 B2Shenzhen Smoore Technology Limited
- Smoking article for identifying an attribute of an aerosol-generating element for adaptive power output and an associated method6 Oct 2026US 12,751,493 B2RAI Strategic Holdings, Inc.
- Flavor carriers for electronic vaping device8 Oct 2026US 2026/0305679 A1Altria Client Services LLC
- Solid flavour-generating material for use in a flavour delivery system8 Oct 2026US 2026/0305681 A1Nicoventures Trading Limited
- Aerosol-generating material8 Oct 2026US 2026/0305683 A1Nicoventures Trading Limited
- Aerosol Generating Article for an Aerosol Generating Device8 Oct 2026US 2026/0305684 A1JT International SA
- Smoking article and method for producing smoking article8 Oct 2026US 2026/0305685 A1Japan Tobacco Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Flavor-delivery article1,043US 5,144,962 APhilip Morris Incorporated · 1992
- Electrical smoking769US 5,249,586 APhilip Morris Incorporated · 1993
- Electrical smoking system for delivering flavors and method for making same740US 5,388,594 APhilip Morris Incorporated · 1995
- Heater and method for efficiently generating an aerosol from an indexing substrate719US 6,053,176 APhilip Morris Incorporated · 2000
- Flavor generating article710US 5,865,185 APhilip Morris Incorporated · 1999