ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,765, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to KT&G Corp. (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Wrapper for aerosol generating article and method of manufacturing same" was invented by Ki-Jin Ahn (Daejeon, South Korea), Jong Yeol Kim (Sejong, South Korea), Soo Ho Kim (Chungcheongbuk-do, South Korea), Kyengbae Ma (Incheon, South Korea), Man Seok Seo (Seoul, South Korea), Jin Chul Yang (Sejong, South Korea) and Bong Su Cheong (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing a wrapper for an aerosol generating article includes applying an adhesive to one surface of a metal layer and attaching a first paper layer thereto, applyin...