ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,677,880, issued on July 14, was assigned to KT&G Corp. (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Heating assembly and aerosol generating device comprising the same" was invented by Jang Won Seo (Daejeon, South Korea), Jin Chul Jung (Daejeon, South Korea), Chul Ho Jang (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Gyoung Min Go (Daejeon, South Korea), Hyung Jin Bae (Daejeon, South Korea) and Jong Seong Jeong (Sejong, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an aerosol-generating device including a heating assembly including an accommodation space into which at least a portion of the aerosol-generating article is accommodated, and at least one spiral coil arra...