US Patent Issued to KT&G on Sept. 8 for "Aerosol generating device and method of controlling the same" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,625, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to KT&G Corp. (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Aerosol generating device and method of controlling the same" was invented by Moon Bong Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aerosol generating device includes a heating element configured to heat an aerosol generating material, a battery configured to supply power to the heating element and receive power from an external device, an output unit, and a processor configured to control the output unit to output a notification indicating whether the aerosol generating device is usable, within a predetermined time period after power supply fro...