US Patent Issued to KT&G on Nov. 3 for "Aerosol generating device for controlling power supply to heater and operating method thereof" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,209, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to KT&G Corp. (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Aerosol generating device for controlling power supply to heater and operating method thereof" was invented by Jae Min Lee (Siheung-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aerosol generating device may include a heater configured to heat an aerosol generating article, a sensor configured to generate a sensing signal corresponding to a change in capacitance of an accommodation space into which the aerosol generating article is inserted, and a processor electrically connected to the heater and the sensor, wherein the processor may be further configured ...