ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,660,863, issued on June 23, was assigned to KT&G Corp. (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Aerosol generating module and aerosol generating device" 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: "An aerosol generating module according to various embodiments includes a heating unit and an atomizing unit disposed adjacent to the heating unit and including an aerosol forming substrate, wherein the heating unit includes a first reservoir including a first material, a second reservoir including a second material that generates heat by reacting ...