Patents
US patents through Dec 31, 2025 · PatentsView, from the USPTO’s Open Data Portal · read Oct 27, 2026
1,619 patents granted to the 9 names below, as the owner printed on each patent when it was granted. A later sale, a lapse or an expiry is not read, so this is what was granted to Altria Group, Inc.’s names, not what it holds today.
Patents granted
1,619
1,477 utility, 139 design, 3 reissue, 1976 to Dec 31, 2025
Granted in 2025
15
Against 28 in 2024 and 22 in 2023
Applications published
863
15 of them in 2025
Names they are printed under
9
a subsidiary, a former name
By yearGrantedApplications published
'11'12'13'14'15'16'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Each pair is one calendar year. Applications are published about eighteen months after filing, so the newest years read low.
What they are aboutgrants since 2021
Other consumer goods46
Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy12
Handling11
IT methods for management8
Biotechnology7
Medical technology7
Computer technology5
Chemical engineering4
Pharmaceuticals2
Other special machines1
Surface technology, coating1
Food chemistry1
The main technology area of each patent, in the World Intellectual Property Organization’s 35 fields.
Under which name9 counted
Philip Morris USA Inc. a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
723 publishedPhilip Morris Inc. a former name
US, as the owner printed on each patent
6 publishedU.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company LLC a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
60 publishedNJOY, LLC a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
19 publishedPhilip Morris USA Inc. a subsidiary
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
31 publishedUST, Inc. a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
7 publishedNJOY, Inc. a subsidiary
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
11 publishedU.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company LLC a subsidiary
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
4 publishedU.S. SMOKELESS TOBACCO COMPANY, a Delaware corporation a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
2 published
Newest grantseach row opens the USPTO’s own copy
| Granted | Patent | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|
| Dec 30, 2025 | 12,509,268 | Method and apparatus for producing pouched tobacco product | Handling | Philip Morris USA Inc. |
| Dec 23, 2025 | 12,501,938 | Heating control for vaporizing device | Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy | NJOY, LLC |
| Dec 16, 2025 | 12,499,406 | Method and apparatus for identifying, authenticating, tracking and tracing manufactured items | IT methods for management | Philip Morris USA Inc. |
| Oct 7, 2025 | 12,433,339 | Electrically heated smoking system with internal or external heater | Other consumer goods | Philip Morris USA Inc. |
| Sep 30, 2025 | 12,426,623 | Cigarettes and filter subassemblies with squeezable flavor capsules and methods of manufacture | Other consumer goods | Philip Morris USA Inc. |
| Sep 16, 2025 | 12,415,637 | High speed poucher | Handling | Philip Morris USA Inc. |
| Aug 26, 2025 | 12,396,489 | Method or forming elongated array with heating elements that bow concentrically outward from radial centerline | Other consumer goods | Philip Morris USA Inc. |
| Aug 26, 2025 | 12,396,476 | Tobacco granules and method of producing tobacco granules | Other consumer goods | U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company LLC |
| Aug 12, 2025 | 12,382,998 | Electrically heated smoking system | Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy | Philip Morris USA Inc. |
| Jul 22, 2025 | 12,364,289 | Electrically heated aerosol generating system and method | Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy | Philip Morris USA Inc. |
Newest applications publishedan application is a clue, never a plan
| Published | Application | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|
| Dec 25, 2025 | 2025/0386853 | TOBACCO GRANULES AND METHOD OF PRODUCING TOBACCO GRANULES | Other consumer goods | U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company LLC |
| Dec 4, 2025 | 2025/0366534 | METHOD OF FORMING ELONGATED ARRAY INCLUDING ARRANGING FIRST HEATING ELEMENTS SYMMETRICALLY AROUND A PIN | Other consumer goods | Philip Morris USA Inc. |
| Nov 27, 2025 | 2025/0360276 | ELECTRONIC VAPORIZER | Medical technology | NJOY, LLC |
| Nov 27, 2025 | 2025/0360275 | ELECTRONIC VAPORIZER | Medical technology | NJOY, LLC |
| Nov 13, 2025 | 2025/0344774 | ELECTRICALLY HEATED SMOKING SYSTEM | Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy | Philip Morris USA Inc. |
| Oct 23, 2025 | 2025/0325037 | ELECTRICALLY HEATED AEROSOL GENERATING SYSTEM AND METHOD | Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy | Philip Morris USA Inc. |
| Oct 9, 2025 | 2025/0311781 | ELONGATE HEATER FOR AN ELECTRICALLY HEATED AEROSOL-GENERATING SYSTEM | Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy | Philip Morris USA Inc. |
| Oct 2, 2025 | 2025/0303077 | ELECTRONIC VAPORIZER | Medical technology | NJOY, LLC |
| Aug 7, 2025 | 2025/0248438 | VESSEL SCREEN RETAINING SYSTEM AND METHOD | Chemical engineering | Philip Morris USA Inc. |
| Mar 13, 2025 | 2025/0082004 | INHIBITION OF SENSORY IRRITATION DURING CONSUMPTION OF NON-SMOKEABLE TOBACCO PRODUCTS | Other consumer goods | Philip Morris USA Inc. |
What it applied for, 2024 to 2025: Other consumer goods 17 · Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy 6 · Handling 5 · Medical technology 5 · Computer technology 2 · Chemical engineering 2.
A patent is counted where the owner printed on it when it was granted carries the company’s own name, a former name, the name of a subsidiary its annual report lists, or its own name with a patent-holding phrase (Technology Licensing, Intellectual Property and the like), once the legal form, case and punctuation are set aside, and prints a country that name counts in. PatentsView’s data are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. Source: PatentsView's granted patents and pre-grant publications, disambiguated, from the USPTO's Open Data Portal, through Dec 31, 2025, read Oct 27, 2026.