US Patent Issued to KT&G on March 31 for "Paper tube for smoking articles with flavored sheet, and smoking article" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,701, issued on March 31, was assigned to KT&G Corp. (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Paper tube for smoking articles with flavored sheet, and smoking article" was invented by Ki-Jin Ahn (Daejeon, South Korea), Dong Hyun Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Ick Joong Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Kyung Bin Jung (Daejeon, South Korea) and Eun Mi Jeoung (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a paper tube for smoking articles with a flavored sheet, and a smoking article, and more particularly, relates to a paper tube for smoking articles which includes a flavored sheet including a cellulose-based polymer, a ...