US Patent Issued to KT&G on Aug. 4 for "Combustible heat source composition for smoking article and smoking article comprising same" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,928, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to KT&G Corp. (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Combustible heat source composition for smoking article and smoking article comprising same" was invented by Eun Mi Jeoung (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a combustible heat source composition, and more particularly, to a combustible heat source composition comprising a carbon powder, an organic binder, and an ignition accelerator, wherein the ignition accelerator comprises potassium nitrate and a reducing sugar, and the potassium nitrate and the reducing sugar are contained at a weight ratio of 5 to 3:2. A...