US Patent Issued to KT&G on July 7 for "Smoking article comprising combustible heat source in which airflow hole is formed" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,670, issued on July 7, was assigned to KT&G Corp. (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Smoking article comprising combustible heat source in which airflow hole is formed" was invented by Eunmi Jeoung (Yuseong-gu, South Korea) and Moonwon Kim (Yuseong-gu, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a smoking article comprising a combustible heat source, comprising: a first part containing a combustible heat source; a second part containing a tobacco material; an airflow hole extending to the upstream side of the combustible heat source from the downstream side end of the first part; and a buffer space located between...