US Patent Issued to KT&G on Feb. 17 for "Aerosol generating device including real-time clock and operating method of the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,943, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to KT&G Corp. (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Aerosol generating device including real-time clock and operating method of the same" was invented by Hyung Jin Jung (Seoul, South Korea) and Jaemin Lee (Siheung-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an aerosol generating device including a real-time clock (RTC) configured to output time information measured from a reference time; a non-volatile memory; and a processor configured to: store the time information in the non-volatile memory when a preset operation is performed, when the RTC is initialized, restore the time information by cor...