US Patent Issued to KT&G on Dec. 2 for "Aerosol generating device and method of operation thereof" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,632, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to KT&G Corp. (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Aerosol generating device and method of operation thereof" was invented by Yong Hwan Kim (Anyang-si, South Korea), Dae Nam Han (Seoul, South Korea), Sung Wook Yoon (Suwon-si, South Korea), Seung Won Lee (Gwangmyeong-si, South Korea) and Seok Su Jang (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aerosol generating device may include: a heater; a wetting detection module configured to generate a wetting signal by being electrically shorted as the wetting detection module comes into contact with a liquid introduced from outside the aerosol generating dev...