ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,699, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to KT&G Corp. (Daejeon, South Korea).
"Aerosol generating device" was invented by Moon Bong Lee (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aerosol generating device includes: an accommodation portion configured to accommodate an aerosol generating article through an opening; and a deformation guiding portion that comes into contact with one end of the aerosol generating article when the aerosol generating article is inserted into an accommodation portion. The deformation guiding portion deforms the one end of the aerosol generating article when the aerosol generating article is inserte...