US Patent Issued to KT&G on Oct. 21 for "Aerosol generating device" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,631, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to KT&G Corp. (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Aerosol generating device" was invented by Jae Min Lee (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Sang Kyu Park (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aerosol generating device includes a housing including an accommodation space for receiving an aerosol generating article, a heater configured to heat the aerosol generating article inserted into the accommodation space to generate an aerosol, a sensor configured to generate a sensing signal corresponding to a change in capacitance of the accommodation space, and a processor electrically connected to the hea...