ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,622,466, issued on May 12, was assigned to KT&G Corp. (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Aerosol generating device" was invented by Dong Sung Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Yong Hwan Kim (Anyang-si, South Korea), Hunil Lim (Seoul, South Korea) and Seok Su Jang (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aerosol generating device includes a first housing including an article insertion portion, wherein the article insertion portion includes at least one first airflow path and is configured to receive an aerosol generating article, a second housing including at least one second airflow path in fluid communication with the at least one first air...