US Patent Issued to KT&G on Sept. 8 for "Combustible heat source for smoking article and smoking article comprising same" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,615, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to KT&G Corp. (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Combustible heat source for smoking article and smoking article comprising same" was invented by Eunmi Jeoung (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a combustible heat source composition for a smoking article, that does not contain a binder and a combustion inhibitor, wherein the composition comprises 1 to 5 parts by weight of a polyhydric alcohol based on 100 parts by weight of the solid content. A smoking article to which a combustible heat source composed of the composition is applied is characterized by having...