ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,022, issued on July 15, was assigned to KT&G Corp. (Daejeon, South Korea).
"Aerosol-generating device" was invented by Jongsub Lee (Sungnam-si, South Korea), Minkyu Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Jueon Park (Seoul, South Korea), Byungsung Cho (Gwangmyung-si, South Korea), Youngsoo Kwon (Changwon-si, South Korea) and Namhyeong Kim (Hwasung-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aerosol-generating device is disclosed. The aerosol-generating device includes a container having a first passage; a container head, which is disposed on the container and has a first outlet at a bottom surface to communicate with the first passage; a mou...