ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,300, issued on April 15, was assigned to SHENZHEN FIRST UNION TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Guangdong, China).

"Heating device" was invented by Jian Wu (Shenzhen, China), Zuqiang Qi (Shenzhen, China), Baoling Lei (Shenzhen, China), Zhongli Xu (Shenzhen, China) and Yonghai Li (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heating device, used for heating an aerosol generating substrate to form an aerosol, comprises a heating body, wherein the heating body comprises a base body configured to have a chamber for receiving at least part of the aerosol generating substrate and further comprises an infrared radiation coating formed on the outer su...