ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,028, issued on July 15, was assigned to KT&G Corp. (Daejeon, South Korea).
"Heater assembly and method of manufacturing the same" was invented by Seung Won Lee (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Yong Hwan Kim (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Sung Wook Yoon (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Dae Nam Han (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heater assembly for heating an aerosol generating material includes an accommodation portion configured to accommodate the aerosol generating material; an induction coil coupled to an outer surface of the accommodation portion; a susceptor located in the accommodation portion and configured to gener...