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PHILIP MORRIS INC

Overview
  • Total Patents
    2,472
About

PHILIP MORRIS INC has a total of 2,472 patent applications. Its first patent ever was published in 1956. It filed its patents most often in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. Its main competitors in its focus markets consumer goods, machines and packaging and shipping are IMP TOBACCO CO LTD, BAT CIGARETTENFAB GMBH and BRITISH AMERICAN TOBACCO (GERMANY) GMBH.

Patent filings per year

Chart showing PHILIP MORRIS INCs patent filings per year from 1900 to 2020

Top inventors

# Name Total Patents
#1 Keritsis Gus D 74
#2 Utsch Francis V 54
#3 Houminer Yoram 53
#4 Aument Patrick E 50
#5 Nichols Walter A 45
#6 Rainer Norman B 39
#7 Martin Peter 38
#8 Grubbs Harvey J 38
#9 Braginetz Paul A 36
#10 Newsome Reginald W 35

Latest patents

Publication Filing date Title
US6860273B2 Cigarette with adsorbent at tip end thereof
US6837369B2 Slide notch cigarette pack sleeve
US6698436B1 Process and apparatus for assembling filter holders for use in a smoking machine
US6803545B2 Electrically heated smoking system and methods for supplying electrical power from a lithium ion power source
US6769437B2 Use of oxyhydroxide compounds for reducing carbon monoxide in the mainstream smoke of a cigarette
US6712455B2 Piezoelectrically driven printhead array
US6615840B1 Electrical smoking system and method
US6786220B2 Tobacco curing barn
US6708734B2 Vibrational removal of excess particulate matter
US6744503B2 Monitoring of vapor phase polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
US6789547B1 Carbon technology
US6596125B2 Method and apparatus for applying a material to a web
US6637439B2 Tobacco smoking mixture for smoking articles such as cigarettes
US6656412B2 Compaction system for particles in particle filled cavities of an article
US6837281B2 Apparatus and method for filling cavities with metered amounts of granular particles
US6701936B2 Cigarette with smoke constituent attenuator
US6533395B2 Inkjet printhead with high nozzle to pressure activator ratio
US6384359B1 Inspection system
US6755200B1 Method for reduction of tobacco specific nitrosamines
US6564808B1 Method for reduction of tobacco specific nitrosamines