ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,940, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to KT&G Corp. (Daejeon, South Korea).
"Aerosol generating device" was invented by Hwi Kyeong An (Seoul, South Korea) and Sung Ho Ju (Daejeon, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aerosol generating device for generating an aerosol by heating an aerosol generating article includes: a case; a heater disposed in the case and configured to generate heat; a support disposed in the case and including a cavity for accommodating an aerosol generating article; a rib formed on an inner surface of the support and extending along a circumferential direction of the cavity such that an outer circumfere...