22nd Century Group Inc. (NYSE:XXII) was just awarded a patent for "Reduced-exposure tobacco products." United States patent number 9,814,258 relates to the field of reduced-exposure tobacco products, including but not limited to cigarettes which contain genetically modified tobacco and methods of producing such cigarettes."

Shares of XXII jumped on rumor of the patent, though many traders are looking for more information since the company has yet to issue a release. For those looking to get an investing edge from newly issued patents, intellectual property attorney Matthew G. Miller, Esq. noted "as a heads up to all traders, issued patents are always released on Tuesdays."

The summary of the invention is as follows:

The present invention provides a cigarette comprising an increased-nicotine transgenic plant or plant portion of a species of the genus Nicotiana and having a tar-to-nicotine yield ratio (TNR) of between about 3 and about 8, as measured by the FTC or ISO method. The increased-nicotine transgenic plant or plant portion exhibits increased nicotine as compared to a non-transformed parent plant or plant portion from which the transgenic plant or plant portion is produced and contains and expresses at least one heterologous nucleic acid that up-regulates the production of nicotine in the transgenic plant or plant portion. The increased-nicotine transgenic plant or plant portion, as compared to a non-transformed control plant or plant portion, contains and expresses a heterologous DNA encoding at least a segment of an enzyme required for the biosynthesis of nicotine in tobacco, the transgenic plant or plant portion exhibiting increased levels of the enzyme as compared to a non-transformed control plant or plant portion and increased-nicotine content as compared to a non-transformed control plant or plant portion.

For the full patent, click here.

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