ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,015, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to KT&G Corp. (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Aerosol-generating device" was invented by Jongsub Lee (Sungnam-si, South Korea), Minkyu Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Jueon Park (Seoul, South Korea) and Byungsung Cho (Gwangmyung-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 disclosure includes a housing comprising an insertion space in communication with an outside of the housing; a probe extending long and installed in the housing such that the probe is movable from the insertion space to an inside of the housing; a pressure sens...