ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,335, issued on July 21, was assigned to KT&G Corp. (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Method of generating aerosol using ultrasonic vibrator and electronic device for performing the method" was invented by Jinchul Jung (Daejeon, South Korea), Gyung Min Go (Daejeon, South Korea), Jangwon Seo (Daejeon, South Korea) and Chul Ho Jang (Bucheon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driving circuit of an electronic device includes a first power supply configured to generate a first signal for generating longitudinal vibration of a vibrator included in a cartridge connected to the electronic device, a second power supply configured to gener...