US Patent Issued to KT&G on Dec. 2 for "Aerosol generating device having a smoke mode and a smokeless mode" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,634, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to KT&G Corp. (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Aerosol generating device having a smoke mode and a smokeless mode" was invented by Sun Hwan Jung (Daejeon, South Korea), Sung Hoon Ha (Daejeon, South Korea) and Chan Min Kwon (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aerosol generating device includes a cartridge configured to store an aerosol generating material, a main body to which the cartridge is detachably coupled, a first heater configured to heat a cigarette inserted into the aerosol generating device, a second heater configured to heat an aerosol generating material, and a processor ...