ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,462, issued on June 23, was assigned to KT&G Corp. (Daejeon, South Korea).
"Inhaler" was invented by Tae Heon Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Jae Hyun Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Mi Jeong Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Yongmi Jung (Daejeon, South Korea), Eun Mi Jeoung (Daejeon, South Korea), Seung Kyu Han (Daejeon, South Korea), Minseok Jeong (Daejeon, South Korea) and Tae Young Chung (Daejeon, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inhaler includes a housing having one surface, the other surface opposite to the one surface, and a plurality of side surfaces connecting the one surface and the other surface, a mouthpiece which is dispo...