US Patent Issued to KT&G on March 24 for "Aerosol-generating device including sensor to detect color information of an aerosol-generating member" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,171, issued on March 24, was assigned to KT&G Corp. (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Aerosol-generating device including sensor to detect color information of an aerosol-generating member" was invented by Jongsub Lee (Sungnam-si, South Korea), Minkyu Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Jueon Park (Seoul, 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 includes an elongated container comprising an inner wall and an outer wall, wherein the inner wall defines an insert space configured to accommodate insertion of an aerosol-generating membe...