US Patent Issued to KT&G on Nov. 3 for "Method of coating tipping paper for smoking article and smoking article manufactured according thereto" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,186, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to KT&G Corp. (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Method of coating tipping paper for smoking article and smoking article manufactured according thereto" was invented by Seung Hwan Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Ho Rim Song (Daejeon, South Korea), Man Seok Seo (Daejeon, South Korea), Dong Kyun Ko (Daejeon, South Korea), Soo Ho Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), In Beom Song (Daejeon, South Korea), Ki Jin Ahn (Daejeon, South Korea), Youn Keun Oh (Daejeon, South Korea) and Hyung Joo Choi (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment of the present disclosure provides a smoking article including a smok...