ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,711, issued on March 31, was assigned to KT&G Corp. (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for outputting image for virtual reality or augmented reality" was invented by Byeongyong Ahn (Daejeon, South Korea), Sohee Yoo (Daejeon, South Korea), Seonbong Lee (Daejeon, South Korea) and Junhui Lee (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an embodiment, in order to provide a virtual reality (VR) image to a user, an electronic device may receive state information from an aerosol generating device, generate a target image corresponding to the state information, and output the target image through a display of...