US Patent Issued to KT&G on May 5 for "Heater assembly and aerosol generating device including the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,616,248, issued on May 5, was assigned to KT&G Corp. (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Heater assembly and aerosol generating device including the same" was invented by Sung Wook Yoon (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Yong Hwan Kim (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Seung Won Lee (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Seok Su Jang (Daejeon, South Korea) and Dae Nam Han (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a heater assembly for accommodating and heating an aerosol generating article, the heater assembly including: an accommodation portion configured to accommodate an end portion of an aerosol generating article; a heating portion arranged to surr...