US Patent Issued to KT&G on Oct. 7 for "Wallpaper composition and wallpaper releasing flavorant component by heat" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,471, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to KT&G Corp. (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Wallpaper composition and wallpaper releasing flavorant component by heat" was invented by Changgook Lee (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wallpaper composition and a wallpaper releases a flavorant component by heat. The wallpaper composition and the wallpaper includes a sugar compound-derived moiety and a flavoring compound-derived moiety in a basic skeleton, and a base material, and includes a compound decomposed into a lactone compound, a sugar compound, and a flavoring compound upon pyrolysis."

The patent was filed on Nov. 11, 2022, un...