ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,165, issued on March 24, was assigned to KT&G Corp. (Daejeon, South Korea).
"Aerosol-generating device" was invented by Jongsub Lee (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Minkyu Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Jueon Park (Seoul, South Korea), Byungsung Cho (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Namhyeong Kim (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aerosol-generating device is disclosed. The aerosol-generating device includes: a cartridge including a first container, a wick disposed in the first container, the wick including an evaporation passage, a cylindrical outer portion surrounding the evaporation passage, an inner portion, which pr...