ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,210, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to KT&G Corp. (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Aerosol generating device which accurately senses heater temperature" was invented by Hunil Lim (Seoul, South Korea) and Taehun Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aerosol-generating device is disclosed. The aerosol-generating device of the present disclosure includes a cartridge, which includes a chamber configure to store a liquid, a wick for receiving the liquid from the chamber, and a heater for heating the wick, a case, to which the cartridge is detachably coupled and which has an insertion space formed to accommodate insertion of...