ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,523, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Shenzhen Moore Vaporization Health & Medical Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Aerosol-generating device" was invented by Xie'en Zhang (Shenzhen, China), Xitian Xie (Shenzhen, China) and Sheng Yang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aerosol-generating device includes: a housing having a liquid storage cavity for accommodating an aerosol-generating substrate; a metal element arranged outside the liquid storage cavity; a static electricity generating assembly including a positive terminal and a negative terminal, one of the positive terminal and the negative terminal being ele...