US Patent Issued to KT&G on Dec. 2 for "Heater module, method of manufacturing the heater module, and aerosol-generating device with the heater module" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,639, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to KT&G Corp. (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Heater module, method of manufacturing the heater module, and aerosol-generating device with the heater module" was invented by Dong Sung Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Won Kyeong Lee (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Heon Jun Jeong (Seoul, South Korea) and Jae Sung Choi (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing a heater module for an aerosol-generating device includes: preparing a heat transfer pipe having a hollow shape and including a thermal conductive material; forming an assembly of the heat transfer pipe and a cover by inser...