ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,557,836, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to KT&G Corp. (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Aerosol-generating article and manufacturing method of the same" was invented by Seok Su Jang (Daejeon, South Korea), Dae Nam Han (Seoul, South Korea), Yong Hwan Kim (Anyang-si, South Korea), Sung Wook Yoon (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Seung Won Lee (Gwangmyeong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides an aerosol-generating article including an aerosol generator including: an aerosol generator comprising an aerosol-generating material configure to vaporize into an aerosol; a tobacco filling part comprising an inner wrapper...