US Patent Issued to KT&G on Oct. 6 for "Smoking article including novel flavoring agent" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,751,481, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to KT&G Corp. (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Smoking article including novel flavoring agent" was invented by Changgook Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Ick Joong Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), In Beom Song (Daejeon, South Korea), Ji Seob Woo (Daejeon, South Korea) and Kyung Bin Jung (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a smoking article including a novel flavoring agent, and more particularly, to a smoking article including a flavoring agent that is a novel compound which includes a flavoring compound-derived moiety in a basic skeleton, and in which a lactone com...