US Patent Issued to KT&G on Feb. 17 for "Aerosol generating device and aerosol generating system" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,939, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to KT&G Corp. (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Aerosol generating device and aerosol generating system" was invented by Sang Kyu Park (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aerosol-generating device includes a susceptor arranged to be inserted into an aerosol-generating substrate, a coil configured to heat the susceptor by induction heating, a magnetic force detector configured to detect a change in magnetic force of the susceptor according to a temperature change, and a controller configured to calculate a temperature of the susceptor based on the change of the magnetic force detected by t...