Article: Publication No. WO/2009/121698 Published on Oct. 8, Assigned to British American Tobacco for Plasma Processing Apparatus, Method (Italian, British Inventors)

GENEVA, Oct. 12 -- Riccardo D'agostino, Pietro Favia, Nicoletta De Vietro and Francesco Fracassi, all from Italy, Michele Mola, Great Britain, have developed a method and apparatus for the plasma processing of filter material.

The patent has been assigned to British American Tobacco Ltd., London.

According to an abstract posted by the World Intellectual Property Organization, the invention relates to an "one embodiment of the invention provides a method of manufacturing a filter material such as carbon suitable for use in a smoking article. The method includes modifying the filtration properties of the filter by altering the surface of the ...

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