US Patent Issued to KT&G on May 12 for "Aerosol generating device and method of unlocking the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,622,468, issued on May 12, was assigned to KT&G Corp. (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Aerosol generating device and method of unlocking the same" was invented by Wonkyeong Lee (Guri-si, South Korea), Paul Joon Sunwoo (Seoul, South Korea), Min Kyu Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Soung Ho Ju (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aerosol generating device includes a housing, a battery disposed in the housing and configured to supply power, an aerosol generator configured to receive the power from the battery and activate aerosol generation, a biometric information obtainer exposed to an outside of the housing and configured to obtain...