ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,629, issued on July 29, 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) and Byungsung Cho (Gwangmyung-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 of the present disclosure includes a first container configured to accommodate an aerosol-generating substance, a heater configured to heat the aerosol-generating substance, a second container configured to be rotatable about a rotating shaft thereof and including a p...