US Patent Issued to KT&G on June 3 for "Aerosol-generating device for detecting insertion of aerosol-generating article and method of operating the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,935, issued on June 3, was assigned to KT&G Corp. (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Aerosol-generating device for detecting insertion of aerosol-generating article and method of operating the same" was invented by Yong Hwan Kim (Anyang-si, South Korea), Sung Wook Yoon (Suwon-si, South Korea), Seung Won Lee (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Seok Su Jang (Daejeon, South Korea) and Dae Nam Han (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to some embodiments, an aerosol-generating device includes: an inductive sensor that detects a change in inductance; an induction coil configured to generate a time-varying magnetic field by a current; ...