US Patent Issued to KT&G on June 30 for "Aerosol-generating device" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,137, issued on June 30, was assigned to KT&G Corp. (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Aerosol-generating device" was invented by Jueon Park (Seoul, South Korea), Minkyu Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Jongsub Lee (Sungnam-si, South Korea) and Byungsung Cho (Gwangmyung-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aerosol-generating device is disclosed. The aerosol-generating device of the disclosure includes a cartridge having therein an insertion space formed to be elongated, a body coupled to the cartridge, a plurality of sensors, and a controller. The plurality of sensors includes a capacitance sensor, disposed in the body so as to be adjacen...