ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,342, issued on Oct. 7, 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) and Byungsung Cho (Gwangmyung-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 of the present disclosure includes a body having formed therein a first insertion space; a heater configured to heat the first insertion space; a sensing circuit connected to the heater; and a sensor configured to detect a change in a magnetic field of the sensing circu...