US Patent Issued to KT&G on Aug. 11 for "Aerosol generating device and operating method therefor" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,166, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to KT&G Corp. (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Aerosol generating device and operating method therefor" was invented by Yong Hwan Kim (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Young Bum Kwon (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Dong Sung Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Hun Il Lim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aerosol generating device includes a case including an accommodation passage into which a cigarette is inserted, a cover coupled to the case, a heater heating the cigarette, a humidity sensor arranged on an upper surface of the cover, and a controller configured to determine humidity of the cigarette b...