ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,937, issued on June 3, was assigned to KT&G Corp. (Daejeon, South Korea).
"Aerosol-generating device and operation method thereof" 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 including a wick configured to absorb an aerosol-generating substance, a heater configured to heat the wick, a sensor configured to sense a puff, and a controller. The controller performs control to heat the heater while puffs are sensed, and detects the temperature of the heater. Bas...