ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,970, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to SHENZHEN SMOORE TECHNOLOGY Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Aerosol generating device and electromagnetic heating assembly thereof" was invented by Hongming Zhou (Shenzhen, China), Taowen Liu (Shenzhen, China), Junjie Xiao (Shenzhen, China), Hua Chen (Shenzhen, China) and Wenli Du (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electromagnetic heating assembly includes: a fixing tube with two run-through ends for fixing an aerosol-forming substrate; a heating body at least partially extending from a first end of the fixing tube into the fixing tube and inserted into the aerosol-forming substrate in ...