ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,285, issued on July 22, was assigned to KT&G Corp. (Daejeon, South Korea).
"Aerosol generating device" was invented by Yong Hwan Kim (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Sung Wook Yoon (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Seung Won Lee (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Dae Nam Han (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aerosol generating device includes a heater configured to heat a cigarette to generate an aerosol, an inductance channel, a capacitance channel, and a controller configured to generate a control signal using information received from the inductance channel and the capacitance channel. A cigarette insertion space that is conf...