US Patent Issued to KT&G on June 3 for "Method of aging smoking material by utilizing oak barrel and smoking article manufactured using the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,916, issued on June 3, was assigned to KT&G Corp. (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Method of aging smoking material by utilizing oak barrel and smoking article manufactured using the same" was invented by Kwang Ho Cha (Daejeon, South Korea), Chul Hee Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Han Jin Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Jang Mi Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Kwang Won Kang (Daejeon, South Korea) and Nae Oh Chung (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment of the present disclosure provides a method of aging smoking materials for constituting at least a portion of a smoking material portion of a smoking article, the method includi...