ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,579, issued on May 27, was assigned to AROMA BIT INC. (Tokyo).

"Odor sensor, odor measurement system, and method for producing odor sensor" was invented by Kenichi Hashizume (Tokyo), Masahiro Kishida (Fukuoka, Japan), Erika Terada (Tokyo) and Kenichi Maeno (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide an odor sensor capable of using an additive that was not capable of being adopted in an odor sensor including a polymer film, an odor measurement system using the odor sensor, and a method for producing the odor sensor, an odor sensor comprises a plurality of sensor elements, the sensor element including a substance absorption film a...