ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,520,868, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to KT&G Corp. (Daejeon, South Korea).
"Tobacco extract sheet, method for manufacturing the same and smoking article including the same" was invented by Kyung Bin Jung (Daejeon, South Korea), Ick Joong Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Geon Chang Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Eun Mi Jeoung (Daejeon, South Korea) and Min Hee Hwang (Daejeon, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tobacco extract sheet, a method of producing the same, and a smoking article including the same are provided. The tobacco extract sheet according to some embodiments of the present disclosure may be produced from a sheet-produ...