ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,765,601, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to SHENZHEN FIRST UNION TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Shenzhen, China).

"Aerosol-producing device" was invented by Shenhui Liu (Shenzhen, China), Zhongli Xu (Shenzhen, China) and Yonghai Li (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electromagnetic induction heating-type aerosol-producing device and a control method are used to heat a smokeable material produce an aerosol. The device comprises: an LC oscillator, an inductance coil of which is inductively coupled with a susceptor; a power supply for providing a pulse voltage to the LC oscillator; the susceptor, which is penetrated by a changing magn...