US Patent Issued to KT&G on Jan. 13 for "Aerosol generating device and method of controlling the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,520,879, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to KT&G Corp. (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Aerosol generating device and method of controlling the same" was invented by Yong Hwan Kim (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Dae Nam Han (Seoul, South Korea), Sung Wook Yoon (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Seung Won Lee (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aerosol generating device according to an aspect may include a display; and a processor configured to monitor states of a plurality of modules included in the aerosol generating device, determine an overall state of the aerosol generating device based on monitoring results, and control the ...