US Patent Issued to KT&G on Aug. 12 for "Vanilla smoking material wrapper and smoking article including the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,985, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to KT&G Corp. (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Vanilla smoking material wrapper and smoking article including the same" was invented by Nae Oh Chung (Daejeon, South Korea), Ki Jin Ahn (Daejeon, South Korea), Chul Hee Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Han Jin Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Kwang Ho Cha (Daejeon, South Korea) and Kwang Won Kang (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A smoking material wrapper for wrapping a smoking material portion of a smoking article includes tobacco fibers and at least one vanilla material from among vanillin, ethyl vanillin, and ethyl vanillin glucoside. A smoking ...