US Patent Issued to KT&G on May 26 for "Aerosol-generating rod comprising tobacco strands arranged in parallel" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,635,725, issued on May 26, was assigned to KT&G Corp. (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Aerosol-generating rod comprising tobacco strands arranged in parallel" was invented by Jung Kyu Seo (Daejeon, South Korea), Tae Chul Shin (Daejeon, South Korea), Young Rim Han (Daejeon, South Korea), Do Kyong Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Jae Sung Noh (Chungcheongnam-do, South Korea) and Hee Tae Jung (Chungcheongbuk-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an aerosol-generating rod, in which a medium portion includes a plurality of strands, the medium portion and a filter portion are connected in a longitudinal direction of the aerosol-generat...