ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,974, issued on March 18, was assigned to KT&G Corp. (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Method for controlling electric power of heater of aerosol-generating apparatus with signal of certain frequency or less and aerosol-generating apparatus using same" was invented by Jae Min Lee (Siheung-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, an aerosol generating apparatus includes a heater for generating an aerosol by heating an aerosol generating material; and a controller for controlling electric power supplied to the heater. The controller controls a frequency of an electric power signal to b...