US Patent Issued to KT&G on Oct. 7 for "Smoking article filter including solid flavoring agent and method of manufacturing the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,328, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to KT&G Corp. (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Smoking article filter including solid flavoring agent and method of manufacturing the same" was invented by Ick Joong Kim (Daejeon, South Korea) and Kyung Bin Jung (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A smoking article filter has a flavoring agent uniformly distributed in the smoking article filter, wherein the flavoring agent is in a solid state at room temperature and includes at least one natural wax and a flavoring component soaked into the at least one natural wax. Also provided are a smoking article including the smoking article filter an...