Patents by Inventor Woo Seok CHUNG

Woo Seok CHUNG has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 12245631
    Abstract: An aerosol generating device includes: a housing; a cigarette accommodation portion located in the housing and configured to accommodate a cigarette through an opening formed at a first side of the cigarette accommodation portion; a heater unit located in the cigarette accommodation portion and configured to generate heat; and a cartridge accommodation portion adjoining a second side of the cigarette accommodation portion and configured to accommodate a cartridge for storing a liquid composition, wherein an end of the heater unit is connected to the cartridge accommodation portion, and a hollow tube is formed in the heater unit such that the liquid composition stored in the cartridge is transferred to the cigarette accommodation portion through the hollow tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: KT&G CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jeong Hoo Kim, Woo Seok Chung
  • Patent number: 12201162
    Abstract: An aerosol-generating article includes a sealed container; and a composition contained in the sealed container and including a tobacco material and a vaporizing agent, wherein the tobacco material includes an aerosol-generating material and tobacco leaves, and the vaporizing agent generates oxidizing heat when exposed to air such that an aerosol may be generated without a heating device or electric power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: KT&G CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jeong Hoo Kim, Woo Seok Chung
  • Patent number: 12189836
    Abstract: A virtual smoking system includes: a display device configured to display an image of a virtual reality or augmented reality in which cigarette smoke is generated in response to a user wearing the display device puffing or ingesting an article containing nicotine; a reproducing device configured to reproduce sound in response to a user wearing the reproducing device puffing or ingesting the article, thereby providing a user with a virtual smoking experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: KT&G CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jeong Hoo Kim, Woo Seok Chung
  • Patent number: 12137751
    Abstract: An aerosol generating device includes: a liquid storage configured to store a liquid material; an aerosol generating space configured to accommodate a solid material including a tobacco material and a foamable material such that an aerosol is generated as the solid material comes in contact with the liquid material in the aerosol generating space; a liquid transfer tube connected to the liquid storage and the aerosol generating space such that the liquid material moves from the liquid storage to the aerosol generating space; and a mouthpiece configured to discharge the aerosol generated in the aerosol generating space, according to a user's inhalation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: KT&G CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jeong Hoo Kim, Woo Seok Chung
  • Publication number: 20220287378
    Abstract: An aerosol generating device includes: an output unit; a biometric information obtaining unit configured to obtain an image of a pupil of a user; a communication unit configured to transmit the image of the pupil of the user to a server and receive information about a recommended cartridge corresponding to the emotional state calculated by the server using a neural-network-based emotion calculation model and a neural-network-based cartridge recommendation model; and a controller configured to control the output unit to output the recommendation cartridge information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2020
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Applicant: KT&G CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jeong Hoo KIM, Woo Seok CHUNG
  • Publication number: 20220248772
    Abstract: A virtual smoking system includes: a display device configured to display an image of a virtual reality or augmented reality in which cigarette smoke is generated in response to a user wearing the display device puffing or ingesting an article containing nicotine; a reproducing device configured to reproduce sound in response to a user wearing the reproducing device puffing or ingesting the article, thereby providing a user with a virtual smoking experience.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2020
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Applicant: KT&G CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jeong Hoo KIM, Woo Seok CHUNG
  • Publication number: 20220087317
    Abstract: An aerosol generating device includes: a housing; a cigarette accommodation portion located in the housing and configured to accommodate a cigarette through an opening formed at a first side of the cigarette accommodation portion; a heater unit located in the cigarette accommodation portion and configured to generate heat; and a cartridge accommodation portion adjoining a second side of the cigarette accommodation portion and configured to accommodate a cartridge for storing a liquid composition, wherein an end of the heater unit is connected to the cartridge accommodation portion, and a hollow tube is formed in the heater unit such that the liquid composition stored in the cartridge is transferred to the cigarette accommodation portion through the hollow tube.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2020
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Applicant: KT&G CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jeong Hoo KIM, Woo Seok CHUNG
  • Publication number: 20220087326
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an aerosol-generating article a sealed container; and a composition contained in the sealed container and comprising a tobacco material and a vaporizing agent, wherein the tobacco material includes an aerosol-generating material and tobacco leaves, and the vaporizing agent generates oxidizing heat when exposed to air such that an aerosol may be generated without a heating device or electric power.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2020
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Applicant: KT&G CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jeong Hoo KIM, Woo Seok CHUNG
  • Publication number: 20220015457
    Abstract: An aerosol generating device includes: a liquid storage configured to store a liquid material; an aerosol generating space configured to accommodate a solid material including a tobacco material and a foamable material such that an aerosol is generated as the solid material comes in contact with the liquid material in the aerosol generating space; a liquid transfer tube connected to the liquid storage and the aerosol generating space such that the liquid material moves from the liquid storage to the aerosol generating space; and a mouthpiece configured to discharge the aerosol generated in the aerosol generating space, according to a user's inhalation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2020
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Applicant: KT&G CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jeong Hoo KIM, Woo Seok CHUNG