US Patent Issued to KT&G on Nov. 18 for "Wallpaper composition and wallpaper from which flavor ingredients are released by heat" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,692, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to KT&G Corp. (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Wallpaper composition and wallpaper from which flavor ingredients are released by heat" was invented by Changgook Lee (Yuseong-gu, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a flavoring agent that is a compound in which a moiety derived from a flavoring compound is represented by Formula 1 and which is decomposed into a lactone compound and a flavoring compound upon thermal decomposition, a composition including the flavoring agent, and a product including the flavoring agent."

The patent was filed on Nov. 17, 2022, under Application No. 18/253,...