ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,808, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to KT&G Corp. (Daejeon, South Korea).
"Method and apparatus for managing smoking information" was invented by Seonbong Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Byeongyong Ahn (Daejeon, South Korea), So Hee Yoo (Daejeon, South Korea) and Junhui Lee (Daejeon, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an example, to manage smoking information, an avatar is generated to be associated with a user of an electronic device, smoking information of the user is received from an additional device connected to the electronic device, an appearance of the avatar is changed based on the smoking information, and ...