ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,402, issued on May 27, 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), Byungsung Cho (Gwangmyung-si, South Korea) and Namhyeong Kim (Hwasung-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aerosol-generating device including a cartridge including a first container having a cylindrical form including a hollow shaft such that liquid is containable between an inner surface of the first container and an outer surface of the hollow shaft; a second container rotatably coupled to the first...