ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,331, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to KT&G Corp. (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Atomization assembly, cartridge, and aerosol generating device including the same" was invented by Dong Sung Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Heon Jun Jeong (Seoul, South Korea), Won Kyeong Lee (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Jae Sung Choi (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An atomization assembly for an aerosol generating device includes an atomizer configured to atomize an aerosol generating material to generate an aerosol, a first liquid delivery element configured to absorb an aerosol generating material from a reservoir for storing the aeroso...