ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,193, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to KT&G Corp. (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Aerosol generating device" was invented by Tae Hun Kim (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Ju Eon Park (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Sung Wook Yoon (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Hyung Jin Jung (Seoul, South Korea) and Jung Ho Han (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aerosol generating device includes a case including an accommodation space to accommodate an aerosol generating article and configured to accommodate at least one electronic component, a heater arranged in the accommodation space and configured to heat the aerosol generating article accommoda...