ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,957, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to KT&G Corp. (Daejeon, South Korea).
"Cigarette and aerosol generating apparatus therefor" was invented by Sung Jong Ki (Daejeon, South Korea), Young Joong Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), In Su Park (Seoul, South Korea), John Tae Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Sun Hwan Jung (Daejeon, South Korea) and Eun Mi Jeoung (Daejeon, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cigarette for an aerosol generating device includes a tobacco rod containing an aerosol generating material; and a cooling rod arranged at one side of the tobacco rod and comprising a hollow extending in a longitudinal direction of the cig...