ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,341, issued on March 4, was assigned to KT&G Corp. (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Aerosol generating device having heater" was invented by Hun Il Lim (Seoul, South Korea), Tae Hun Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea), Jung Ho Han (Daejeon, South Korea) and Sang Kyu Park (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an aerosol generating apparatus including: a heater configured to generate aerosol by heating a cigarette, the heater including a first electrically conductive heating element formed along a first path on an electrically insulating substrate, a second electrically conductive heating element formed along a second p...