US Patent Issued to KT&G on July 14 for "Electronic device for providing additional image and operating method thereof" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,105, issued on July 14, was assigned to KT&G Corp. (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Electronic device for providing additional image and operating method thereof" was invented by Wonkyeong Lee (Guri-si, South Korea), Min Kyu Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Paul Joon Sunwoo (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide an additional image to a user, an electronic device receives data on a smoking event from an external device, generates image data including at least one graphic object corresponding to the smoking event based on data on the received smoking event, and provides an additional image to a user by outputting the image ...