US Patent Issued to KT&G on Dec. 30 for "Aerosol generating apparatus including pressure sensor" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,740, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to KT&G Corp. (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Aerosol generating apparatus including pressure sensor" was invented by Jaemin Lee (Siheung-si, South Korea), Ji Hyun Jo (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Heon Jun Jeong (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an embodiment, an aerosol generating apparatus includes an accommodation portion configured to accommodate an aerosol generating article, a pressure sensor configured to detect pressure in the accommodation portion, and a controller configured to determine whether the aerosol generating article is inserted into or removed from the acco...