ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,213,796, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Accenture Global Solutions Ltd. (Dublin).
"Aroma training using virtual reality" was invented by Derrick Anthony Martin II (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Alex M. Kass (Palo Alto, Calif.), Marc Carrel-Billiard (Vence, France) and Alexandria Emily Pabst (Merced, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for implementing an olfaction training program by an online service executing on a server. A first object and an aroma of the first object is transmitted to the client device of a user that presents the first object in...