ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,556, issued on March 3, was assigned to AWESOME LAB Co. LTD. (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

"Electrode heating unit and device, and control method for protecting electrical short therefor" was invented by Dong-muk Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an embodiment of the present invention, provided is an electrode heating device including: a device housing; an electrode heating unit including a central conductor, an internal conductor disposed to form a gap inside the central conductor, and an external conductor disposed to form the gap outside the central conductor, and received and installed in the...