ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,068, issued on Nov. 4, 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 Sungrok Oh (Gunpo-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aerosol-generating device is disclosed. The aerosol-generating device includes a housing; a cartridge disposed in the housing and including a first container and a second container which are rotatably coupled, wherein the second container includes a plurality of chambers which are isolated from each oth...