ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,173, issued on March 24, was assigned to KT&G Corp. (Daejeon, South Korea).
"Aerosol generating device including a harvest device" was invented by Won Kyeong Lee (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Heon Jun Jeong (Seoul, South Korea) and Jae Sung Choi (Gwangju, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aerosol-generating device includes a heating element configured to heat an aerosol-generating substrate, a battery configured to supply power to the heating element, a harvest device configured to generate power, and a controller configured to control conversion of power generated by the harvest device and control charging of the battery ...