US Patent Issued to Japan Tobacco on July 15 for "Tobacco filling for non-combustion-type heating smoking article" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,017, issued on July 15, was assigned to Japan Tobacco Inc (Tokyo).

"Tobacco filling for non-combustion-type heating smoking article" was invented by Nobuyuki Ishikawa (Tokyo), Masayuki Tsuji (Tokyo) and Kei Sadakari (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The purpose of the present invention is to provide a tobacco filling: that is for a non-combustion-type heating smoking article that heats a filling that contains cut tobacco; that suppresses reductions in the evaporated amount of a fragrant smoke flavor component for the non-combustion-type heating smoking article; and that can suppress the "feeling that fragrant smoke flavor is bein...