ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,281, issued on July 22, was assigned to KT&G Corp. (Daejeon, South Korea).
"Aerosol generation apparatus" was invented by Sang Kyu Park (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Seung Won Lee (Gwangmyeong-si, South Korea) and Jong Sub Lee (Seongnam-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aerosol generating device includes an accommodator for accommodating a cigarette through an opening formed at an end of the accommodator, a first susceptor located in the accommodator, a second susceptor disposed a predetermined distance away from the first susceptor, a coil that generates an alternating magnetic field for the first and second susceptors...