ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,621, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to KT&G Corp. (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for manufacturing aerosol-forming rod" was invented by Young Rim Han (Daejeon, South Korea), Tae Chul Shin (Daejeon, South Korea), Do Kyung Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Jung Kyu Seo (Daejeon, South Korea) and Hee Tae Jung (Cheongju-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method and an apparatus for manufacturing an aerosol-forming rod, and according to the present disclosure, it is possible to realize various aerosol-forming product properties, by utilizing the sheet-specific chara...