ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,612, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to KT&G Corp. (Daejeon, South Korea).
"Triple capsule, and apparatus and method for manufacturing same" was invented by Ick Joong Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Ho Rim Song (Daejeon, South Korea) and Jae Gon Lee (Daejeon, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing a triple capsule includes supplying an interior material, an intermediate film material, and an exterior film material; discharging a triple molding body by receiving the interior material, the intermediate film material, and the exterior film material through a nozzle mount and performing coextrusion on the interior...