US Patent Issued to KT&G on Oct. 28 for "Ultra-low nicotine smoking article" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,366, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to KT&G Corp. (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Ultra-low nicotine smoking article" was invented by Han Saem Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Jae Woo Park (Daejeon, South Korea), Yeon Seok Jung (Daejeon, South Korea) and Young Jin Choi (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to an ultra-low nicotine smoking article. The smoking article includes a medium part and a filter part, in which the medium part includes a tobacco medium including flue-cured tobacco, dry ice expanded tobacco, and expanded stems, the tobacco medium includes 50% by weight (wt %) to 60 wt % of flue...