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AMERICAN TOBACCO CO

Overview
  • Total Patents
    328
About

AMERICAN TOBACCO CO has a total of 328 patent applications. Its first patent ever was published in 1896. It filed its patents most often in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. Its main competitors in its focus markets consumer goods, packaging and shipping and machines are BAT CIGARETTENFAB GMBH, IMP TOBACCO CO LTD and IMP TOBACCO GROUP LTD.

Patent filings in countries

World map showing AMERICAN TOBACCO COs patent filings in countries

Patent filings per year

Chart showing AMERICAN TOBACCO COs patent filings per year from 1900 to 2020

Top inventors

# Name Total Patents
#1 Ashworth John T 8
#2 Schoenbaum Alexander W 8
#3 Prescott Sydney I 7
#4 Harnisch Karl 7
#5 Harris Fred R 6
#6 Ashworth J 6
#7 Tuttle Washington I 6
#8 Pedersen Peder M 5
#9 Black James H 5
#10 Tucker Benjamin W 5

Latest patents

Publication Filing date Title
US4779733A Display tab for overwrapped package
US5007439A Method of fabricating an all-tobacco cigarette controlling tar delivery and an all-tobacco cigarette
US4791942A Process and apparatus for the expansion of tobacco
US4726385A Method of fabricating an all-tobacco cigarette controlling tar delivery and an all-tobacco cigarette
US3610254A Cigar-pressing method
US3558042A Cigar accumulator tray
US3550508A Method of making a composite filter
US3557798A The smoking taste of tobacco stems
US3547130A Method of cooling cigarette smoke
IE30752L Tobacco smoke filter.
IE30800L Tobacco smoke filter.
FR1495861A Method of manufacturing a reconstituted tobacco leaf
US3373870A Cigar classification apparatus
US3397700A Flavor enhanced cigarettes and cigars
US3381692A Cigar press
US3390686A Tobacco smoke filter element
US3428049A Tobacco smoke filter element
US3386578A Inspection device for composite cigarette filter rods
US3428053A Production of reconstituted tobacco
FR1441875A Continuous operating quality indicator for a cigarette making machine