ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,178, issued on April 14, was assigned to KT&G Corp. (Daejeon, South Korea).
"Method and apparatus for unlocking aerosol generating device" was invented by Jae Min Lee (Siheung-si, South Korea) and Soung Ho Ju (Daejeon, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an aerosol generating device including a heater configured to heat an aerosol generating substance after a locking mode is terminated; an output interface configured to output information indicative of switching from the locking mode to a password input mode; an input interface configured to receive at least one user input including a predetermined input waiting t...