ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,785, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to KT&G Corp. (Daejeon, South Korea).
"Aerosol generating device" was invented by Won Kyeong Lee (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Jong Sub Lee (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Byung Sung Cho (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aerosol generating device includes a storage configured to store an aerosol generating material, a liquid delivery element configured to absorb the aerosol generating material stored in the storage, and an atomizer configured to atomize the aerosol generating material absorbed by the liquid delivery element into an aerosol by generating ultrasonic vibrations...