US Patent Issued to KT&G on Aug. 25 for "Method and apparatus for outputting virtual smoke image" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,421, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to KT&G Corp. (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for outputting virtual smoke image" was invented by Jae Hyun Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Minseok Jeong (Daejeon, South Korea) and Tae Young Chung (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In order to output a virtual smoke image, an electronic device can output target image content selected by a user via a display of the electronic device, receive sensing information about the state of an aerosol generation device from the aerosol generation device connected to the electronic device, generate a virtual smoke image on the basis ...