US Patent Issued to KT&G on Nov. 11 for "Combustible heat source composition for smoking article and smoking article comprising same" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,077, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to KT&G Corp. (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Combustible heat source composition for smoking article and smoking article comprising same" was invented by Eun Mi Jeoung (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a combustible heat source composition, and more particularly, to a combustible heat source composition comprising a carbon powder, an organic binder, and an ignition accelerator, wherein the ignition accelerator comprises potassium nitrate and a reducing sugar, and the potassium nitrate and the reducing sugar are contained at a weight ratio of 5 to 3:2....