US Patent Issued to KT&G on Sept. 30 for "Aerosol-generating device and operating method thereof" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,639, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to KT&G Corp. (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Aerosol-generating device and operating method thereof" was invented by Hyung Jin Jung (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aerosol-generating device and a controlling method thereof are provided. The aerosol-generating device may include a heating chamber configured to receive an aerosol-generating article, a heater configured to heat the aerosol-generating article in the heating chamber, an inductance sensor configured to measure an inductance value of a coil, a capacitance sensor configured to measure a capacitance value of a capacitor, ...